(Zaman Al Wasl)- Social media activists launched a campaign in solidarity with Karim, a two-month-old child who who lost his left eye after a regime air strike on the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta last Friday. “Karim lost his eye and had his skull broken by Assad...

An infant in opposition-held Eastern Ghouta -- a suburb of Damascus -- died on Friday due to lack of health care. Walid Awwata, doctor of the baby, said that the 45-day-old Mohanned was diagnosed with bilateral hydronephrosis. Bilateral hydronephrosis is a condition that...

Representatives of Syria’s warring sides sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks on Thursday, but mediator Staffan de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough. Previous rounds of talks have gone...

Much has changed since Syria’s warring sides met for the last round of U.N.-brokered talks in Geneva last summer. The Islamic State group has been defeated in all its major strongholds, rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad have been significantly weakened and Russia, Iran,...