The Lebanese army has reportedly released the ex-wife of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as part of a prisoner swap deal brokered by Qatar. Saja Dulaimi, who was married to the militant commander six years ago, has been handed over to the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front group,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian newborn who had been taken hostage by a Lebanese hospital as  his displaced family could not pay the last $1200 of treatment expenses, has been freed on Monday, activists said. Mohamed Qassab, Syrian activist based in Lebanon, said Syrian and Lebanese...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian newborn has been taken hostage by a Lebanese hospital as his displaced family can not pay the last $1200 of treatment expenses, activists said Saturday. Family of Mohamed Issa al Kholi, who fled the central Syrian town of Krak des Chevaliers to Lebanese city...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad...