Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Monday appealed for donations to a nationwide fund-raising campaign to support the Syrian people facing a serious humanitarian crisis due the country’s civil war. The emir issued “a distress call to citizens, men and...
At first glance, it seems to be no more than a nondescript suburban street of neat 1930s semis, too close to the noisy A40 dual carriageway to be fashionable. But this road in the West London suburb of Acton has become the capital’s unlikely front line in Syria’s...
On Thursday, news circulated that scores of insurgents had been killed in a failed operation in Homs city in central Syria On Friday morning, the death toll was put at 65, but it was still unclear — how and why had these men died? Rose al-Homsi...
Lugging three plastic sacks full of clothes, Abu Mohammed and his three daughters pulled back the wrought iron border crossing gate, stepped through it into Turkey and smiled. As one daughter wept tears of relief, her father recounted their 12-hour journey from...
