The Iraqi government is taking measures to provide accommodation, food and security for a surging number of displaced Syrians in that country. Iraq has received 210,000 Syrian refugees so far, a sudden increase from 160,000 just over a...
Residents from a small rebel held town in Syria have enacted a satirical pantomime that mocks the West's response to last month's chemical weapons attack in Damascus. As President Barack Obama pursues a diplomatic track, demanding that the Syrian regime give up its chemical...
In early June 2011, some three months into the uprising against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Syrian government forces began preparing for a large-scale assault on Jisr al-Shughour, a rebellious border town sixty-five miles southwest of Aleppo. The events that led to this...
Syrian insurgents pressed a new assault in the strategic, heavily-defended southwestern suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday, saying they aimed to break an army blockade of rebel-held areas. Rebels fired mortars at government forces while army shelling hit the suburb of Derayya, the scene of...
