(New York Times)- The guns were silent atop Mount Qasioun, and lights on its slopes twinkled over Damascus as President Bashar al-Assad welcomed visitors to his French-Ottoman palace below. It was possible to imagine, for a moment, that there was no war in Syria. The blasts that until...

(Vox)- The United States is actively participating in a brutal war in Yemen, providing valuable jet refueling capabilities and intelligence to the Saudi-led campaign against the Houthi rebel group that began in March of last year. Because of the US’s fairly limited direct combat role, the...

Seven months after the European Union and Turkey struck an agreement to turn back the tide of Syrians fleeing west, not a single refugee has been sent back from Greece, and Brussels is losing its patience as overcrowded camps grow violent. The agreement reached in March was designed to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People’s Protection Units (YPG), Military arm of Democratic Union Party (PYD) capture hundreds of Arabs in the city of Ain al-Arab in the Eastern countryside of Aleppo under fake accusation for most of them, tribal sources mentioned.  A tribe's Sheikh talked to Zaman...