United Nations officials confirmed an outbreak of polio among children in Syria on Tuesday, lending urgency to plans for vaccination campaigns there and in nearby countries to try to halt the spread of the disease. Tests confirmed polio in 10 out of 22 children in Deir...

  Reports about missing a rebel commander affiliated to 'Jund Allah', God's Soldiers rally in Idlib countryside. Anas al-Zir, leader of 'Yousef al-Zmeh' brigade, was missed in Sarmin city after his attendenace for military meeting with Jund Allah commanders, source...

  A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war   Fifteen days into his job as  Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something...

  A 35-year-old man was killed in the southeastern Turkish town of Ceylanpinar early on Monday when a stray mortar shell fired across the border from Syria struck a house near the frontier, security sources said. The shell was fired during clashes between Kurdish and...