Turkey's widely-admired response to the refugee crisis sparked by the war in neighbouring Syria is now showing its limitations, with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees living in destitution and others being denied entry, Amnesty International warned Thursday. Turkey has...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prisoners of Homs’s central prison, who live in extremely hard circumstances, have threatened to begin a hunger strike in order to achieve their demands, according to statement...

Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)-   Many people from Homs’s countryside were forced to leave their regime-held villages in the northeastern countryside of Homs, to live in primitive camp near...

Syria's once-promising economy has been set back more than 30 years by its brutal civil war, economists say, and it may never recover. Squeezed by sanctions and the fallout of the more than three-year-old conflict, the government faces dwindling revenues and is increasingly...