(Middle East Eye)- Allowing aid into besieged areas of Syria has proven to be a successful diplomatic tool for negotiating, but civilians always pay the price for these truces On 13 December 2016, Bashar Jaafari, the current permanent representative of Syria to the United Nations, declared:...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday announced that some of the millions of Syrian and Iraqis who have fled to Turkey would be given Turkish nationality. "Our interior ministry is carrying out work, and under this work, some of them will be granted our nationality after all the necessary...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 ISIS fighters were killed on Thursday when a fighter from Jabahat Fateh al-Sham opened fire on their checkpoint in the Yarmouk Camp south of the capital, source said. The attack had been followed by sporadic clashes between the ex-al-Qaeda affiliate group and ISIS...

Syria is prepared for "open battle" against insurgents in the province where Damascus has been allowing them to gather under ceasefire deals, said the government official in charge of negotiations that have seen rebels yield swathes of territory. The past year has seen President Bashar...