Education is the orphan of any war. This is particularly true in Syria, where brutal violence has spilled over onto university campuses, with tragic bombings this year at the University of Aleppo and the University of Damascus. Students and professors have been...

  The Syrian conflict is "devastating" the lives of Palestinian refugees in the country, a UN agency said Monday, after weekend shelling of a Palestinian camp in the southern province of Daraa.   "Initial reports indicate the (Daraa) Palestine refugee camp was...

Shortly before its operatives killed 14 Iraqi Shiite children in a school bombing this month, the group once known as al-Qaeda in Iraq sent guerrillas into northern Syrian villages with orders to reopen local Sunni classrooms. In a series of early fall visits, the militants handed out religious...

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has reported that a ship carrying hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees who fled from Syria drowned in the Mediterranean close to Libyan shores after coming under fire from Libyan side on Friday.   The Palestinian...