Hundreds of Syrians gather at dusk for a passenger ferry from Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli to Turkey, the next step on their long trek toward what they hope will be a better, safer life in western Europe. For more than four years, Lebanon has drawn refugees fleeing Syria but...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Nearly 25,000 students in the northern countryside of Homs city have joined schools on 13- September, 90% of them in schools  regime-controlled areas, while the rest controlled by the opposition's interim government and other charity associations. ...

A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul Monday. Around 700 mostly Syrian men, women and children from a group that had been blocked for the past week at Istanbul's main bus station set out overnight on foot for the...

For Vladimir Putin, Russia's military build-up in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine's frozen conflict. But it was a panicky realization that the Syrian government was being turned over on the battlefield that tipped the...