The UN food aid agency said Friday that it feared a rise in malnutrition among children trapped in besieged communities in Syria where fighting has halted supply convoys. "The World Food Programme is concerned about the fate of many Syrians trapped in conflict areas and still in need of...

    Hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence and turmoil at home are being turned back by Jordan and other neighboring countries, Amnesty International said today in a new report that calls for urgent international support to increase humanitarian aid and resettlement to...

  Syrian troops pressed an advance Thursday on the strategic area of Sfeira, the site of several arms factories near Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Fierce clashes are raging between the rebels and regime troops on the eastern side of...

  While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement in Northern Syria. This experience of reconstructing an administrative system through the bottom-up...