The United States is sending 200 additional military personnel to Syria to help the campaign to drive the Islamic State militant group from Raqqa, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday. Speaking in Bahrain at the Manama Dialogue conference on Middle East security, Carter said...

(The Guardian)- The fall of Aleppo will neither end the conflict nor bring more stability to the country. The continuing offensive by the Syrian regime to capture the rest of the eastern side of the city has led to the capture of about 75% of the rebel-held area. But the regime’s swift...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- At least 25 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed on Friday in barrel bombs attack targeted the neighborhood of al-Jaloom in Aleppo city, residents and Civil Defense rescuing group said. Two children were also killed in air strikes hit al-Maéadi...

(Eqtsad)- Abo Mohammed, a farmer from Jabal al-Akrad in the countryside of Latakia, used to produce dozens of tons of apples and peach, but now he relies on cigarettes wrapping for a shop in Antakya to earn some money to cover living cost.  He works for more than 10 hours a day to...