One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...

   From your drawing I can guess if you are with or against Bashar al-Assad. That's what happened recently with Ammar, 10 year-old in his school in Damascus. The teacher asked the pupils to draw the national flag of Syria, the boy was very smart to guess...

  While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement in Northern Syria. This experience of reconstructing an administrative system through the bottom-up...

      The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah is poised to launch a much-anticipated offensive to the north of Damascus in a counterinsurgency campaign that is likely to prompt hand-wringing in Washington and more Saudi frustration with Western inaction in...