Pressure intensified on Syrian rebels on Monday to permit access to chemical weapons sites in areas under their control, as officials said the rapidly shifting lines in the civil war made it difficult for inspectors to reach some locations and called for all parties to ease the process...

    Education is the orphan of any war. This is particularly true in Syria, where brutal violence has spilled over onto university campuses, with tragic bombings this year at the University of Aleppo and the University of Damascus. Students and professors have been...

 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...