CANNES (AFP)- A Syrian woman whose horrifying footage of the siege of Homs was turned into a film by an exiled director was on Friday given a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, a few hours after the pair met for the first time. Documentary maker Wiam Simav Bedirxan,...

The historic Christian town of Maalula stands a shadow of its former self, abandoned and war-scarred, a month after Syrian government forces expelled Islamist rebels. In the main square, with its posters of President Bashar al-Assad and slogans daubed on walls singing his...

Syrian rebels who evacuated Homs after a two-year siege and daily bombing are rediscovering the simple joy of eating well and resting. But many feel far from home and dream of return. "In the last months of the siege, all we had left to eat were the leaves off the trees," says...

Government and rebels accuse each other of being responsible for cutting water supply to Syrian city, observatory says. Residents of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, have been without water for a week because fighters have cut supplies into rebel and...