(Al Jazeera)-  In Syria, the besieged town of Douma, 10km northeast of Damascus, has been under intense regime and Russian shelling for the past few weeks. One resident, Osama Nasser, describes what it is like to live there: It usually begins in the morning, at around 8am, and lasts all...

Washington (CNN)The U.S. official spearheading the fight against ISIS threw cold water on the idea of a no-fly zone in Syria Thursday, despite several presidential candidates advocating for the move. Speaking with CNN's Elise Labott on his last day in office, Gen. John Allen, presidential envoy...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The last ophthalmologist has left Northern countryside of Homs to Turkey last month, leaving patients of injuries with sharp materials and wounds in eyes because of foreign bodies at risk of losing the activity of their eyes leading to blindness...

Talks on the Syrian conflict in Vienna this weekend will focus on deciding which opposition groups should negotiate with President Bashar Assad's government and which should be designated as terrorists, sources said Wednesday. The discussions will bring together around 20 countries and...