Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The effect of the regime’s decision to reduce the production capacity and working hours for the auxiliary bakeries have started to appear in regime-held area, as long crowded queues are noticed at bakeries to get small amount of bread. Damascus”, The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a judge in terrorism court in Damascus referred prominent Syrian opposition figure Mohamed Saleh to the criminal court on charges of “funding terrorism in Syria” and that when he helped a family in besieged al-Waer...

There were hardly any Syrian migrants among the 800 people rescued off Sicily, contrary to earlier reports from Italy's coastguard, the U.N. and the International Organization for Migration have confirmed. The coastguard had said Thursday that half of the 342 migrants they had picked up were...

Italy's coastguard said it helped rescue 801 migrants from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, including many Syrians, amid signs that refugees from the Middle East are increasingly shunning the Greek route into Europe. More than a million migrants, many from Syria, have entered Europe...