Syria’s first lady Asma al-Assad laughed off claims she has fled the war-hit country in footage broadcast on Tuesday, saying she was standing by her embattled husband President Bashar al-Assad. The British-educated Asma has rarely appeared in public since the beginning of the conflict...

The press office of the Islamic Ahrar al-Sham movement based in the countryside of Aleppo, released footage on social media showed its fighters celebrating with the children in the first day of Muslim holy Eid, AL-Adha . Analysts said that the Islamic movement is very pragmatic...

      Shaqlawa Mohammed Rashid sits at the entrance of a white tent in a refugee camp in northern Iraq, reflecting on what will be her first Eid al-Adha holiday outside Syria.   The 16-year-old girl smiles at her mother Barshan, who sits next to her on a...

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...