(Al  Jazeera) -  A number of long metal arms swing over the city skyline in Beirut. In one open-air construction yard after another, Syrian labourers build sleek 25- and 30-floor towers, working without safety regulations, health insurance or union protection. According...

(By Mamoon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Pro-Syrian regime people in Homs started moving their dead relatives’ remains from the martyrs’ graveyard to their home villages.  Sources mentioned that families refused to bury their killed sons in Fardous graveyard, the one...

The Islamic State jihadist group launched an offensive Wednesday in Deir Ezzor city in eastern Syria in a bid to seize a major regime airport nearby, a monitor and activist said. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said clashes and at least one suicide explosion had...

Dozens of people have been killed in Syrian air strikes on the cities of Idlib and Aleppo and the suburbs of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least three people were killed while 16 others were injured when Syrian helicopters dropped seven barrel bombs on a...