(Al- Monitor)- Lebanon is a country of unsettled scores. Each time I visit the country, I keep seeing and feeling the burdensome legacy of its 15-year civil war, no matter how many years had gone by since it ended in 1990. What would I find in neighboring Syria, as its nearly 6-year-old civil...

A leading Syrian opposition figure on Wednesday called on the UN to stop the Assad regime from committing ceasefire and human rights violations in the Wadi Barada region west of capital Damascus. Riyad Hijab, chief coordinator for Syria’s opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), sent...

The Syrian army and its allies pressed ahead Friday with a two-week-long offensive to seize a strategic valley where a key spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital, Damascus, residents and rebels said. Aerial bombing and shelling from the army as well as Hezbollah...

Gray is a dying town, its residents lament. Big businesses have moved away, taking jobs with them. Though it still lives up to its nickname "Gray la jolie," or "Gray the pretty," many stores now lie vacant, with fading "to rent" signs in their windows. But for one Syrian family, the...