(Middle East Eye)- In an aging hotel outside the town of Mytilini, Mohammed wearily waits with his younger brother and their two heavily pregnant wives for updates on their asylum cases.  The group fled the violence in Sukhna, their remote desert hometown in eastern Syria - where...

Just before midnight in a sleepy district of Beirut, dozens of Syrian refugees huddle in small groups around bulging suitcases, clutching their pinging cellphones and one-way tickets to Italy. "Torino! Pronto! Cappuccino!" They practise random Italian words in a schoolyard in the...

It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city via a gaping hole in the basement. In the darkness lies a pile of rubble -- all that remains of two ancient Assyrian statues of winged bulls, smashed to pieces by Islamic...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Download the detainee list of 8536 people were arrested between 2011-2013 by 271 branch, a notorious military intelligence department was based in Idlib. Since the detainees had been transferred to 291 military branch in Damascus, their fate still...