Two suspected people smugglers went on trial in Turkey on Thursday charged with causing the death in September of a Syrian toddler, images of whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach shocked the world. The trial of Syrian nationals Muwafaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad opened at the...

(The Guardian)- Syria’s national wealth, infrastructure and institutions have been “almost obliterated” by the “catastrophic impact” of nearly five years of conflict, a new report has found. Fatalities caused by war, directly and indirectly, amount to 470,000, according to the Syrian...

Rebel groups urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do more to stop Russian bombing raids in Syria as pressure mounted on Washington ahead of a new round of peace talks this week. World powers are meeting in Germany on Thursday to try to revive the first effort in two years to...

Reporitng by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- 15 children died due to a suspected HINI flu last January in the PYD-cotrolled areas in the northeastern province of Hasaka, medical source told Zaman al-Wasl. The deadly flu cases were recorded in the predominantly...