(Los Angeles Times)- The guns have been silenced; that is the first change a returning visitor notices while driving around Syria’s capital. In years past, the booms of artillery, mortars and rockets exchanged between the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the rebels arrayed...

(The Daily Sabah)- Journalists from Western newspapers and TV stations, in addition to politicians and academics, have been invited to attend a pro-Assad regime conference held in Damascus, organized by the British Syrian Society. During a two-day workshop reportedly organized by Syrian leader...

(News Deeply)- On September 17, U.S., British, Danish and Australian warplanes attacked a Syrian military base in Deir Ezzor that had been holding out against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) for months. The U.S.-led coalition’s airstrikes killed at least 62 Syrian troops before a frantic...

French riot police swooped on a makeshift migrant camp in northeast Paris on Monday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where numbers have soared since the closure of the Jungle shanty town in the northern port city of Calais. The operation, largely consisting of identity checks on some of...