Syrian activists say that two days of heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and al-Qaida-linked rebels in the northeast have killed at least 41 on both sides, AP reported. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says to Associated Press the clashes in Hassakeh province...

I stopped to buy walnuts in Sidon last week from a sunburned man sitting on the pavement of the old souk. Like the walnuts – soft, almost creamy inside their iron-hard husks – he came from the Syrian town of Bloudan. In years gone by, I would take the steam train from the old Haj...

  Activists have circulated a photo on the internet for three sisters' children, who were victims of their father's dream of immigration to be face to face with sea darkness and human traffickers .   The Palestinian refugee Hussein Salameh, who fled from...

 An activist group says Syrian warplanes have been bombing the suburbs of Damascus while rebels have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday. Tuesday’s fighting shows how entrenched both sides in Syria’s civil war have become. Earlier...