Hassan, a university student from Aleppo, had no choice but to leave his education due to the escalating dangerous events in his city to join civil defense courses which are held periodically in Istanbul. University of Aleppo is a public university located in Aleppo, Syria....

  German foreign Minister urged Syria’s opposition, in meeting took place last month with the interim PM Ahmad Toumeh, to accept Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the transitional governing period, well-informed source said. Mr. Frank Steinmeier, the veteran diplomat and...

With the Ukraine crisis, any fleeting hope that the U.S. and Russia could soon broker a political settlement in Syria has vanished. The United States needs an alternate strategy for strengthening Syrian moderates who can resist both the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime and al-Qaeda...

Shopping is no longer among the priorities for Syrian families in Damascus due to the rapid and drastic increase in the prices of clothes as a result of factories’ closure and the inflation which ate the Syrian Pound. Damascus shops lie empty and people only pass by them to take a look at the...