Amina Hamawy burst into tears and then fainted when she returned to eastern Aleppo to find that looters had ransacked her home. "Where am I? What happened?" she asked after her husband and daughter revived her. "We have lost everything." They were among a few hundred residents who fled...

Suspected Russian airstrikes have killed at least 46 people in opposition-held parts of Syria, activists said, as the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Monday on a resolution demanding a temporary cease-fire in Aleppo. Syria's government is waging a fierce offensive to recapture all of...

By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- The extent to which communities in Syria and Iraq that have fallen under ISIL’s influence have changed since the group took control might take a generation to fully comprehend. In much of the expanse that ISIL has controlled or still holds, social change...

  The Syrian Network for Human Rights, in new report documenting the arbitrary arrests in Syria in November, said 394 people, including 11 children, and 19 women, were detained last month by the regime forces. The arrests made in Damascus focused on the age group 18-42 for the purpose...