Activists have published pictures of a long wall in Homs, near the water store in al-Zahra, the neighbourhood of Alawite majority, at the junction between Arman and East Cornish neighbourhoods. On that wall, pictures of hundreds of soldiers and members of National Defence Forces...

  Following a report earlier this month in the British newspaper The Times claiming Hizbollah was withdrawing significant forces from  Syria , there was buzz on social media that this could be the beginning of a broader pullout or even a sign of defeat for Lebanon’s...

  Syria  should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a  report  which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...

The   Syrian tragedy   grows more ferocious by the week. I was shocked to learn this weekend that at least 2,000 Afghans, the poorest of the poor from the harshest country on earth – who fled the Soviet invasion of their land and then the post-Russian...