Mentally scarred by the turmoil at home after two and half years of civil war, Syria’s national football team are hoping continued success on the pitch can give their compatriots small reason to cheer.   Syria, who beat Iraq to win the West Asian Championships...

We are facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent decades, if not the worst since the Balkans war and Rwanda. Syria is becoming a field of ruins with millions of people, mainly women and children, affected. According to  the latest gruesome statistics , more than 115,000 people...

  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...

The president of Syria has said that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a comment likely to raise eyebrows around the world. Bashar al-Assad, the president of  Syria , has joked that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize after it was awarded to the international weapons...