Sitting in the salon of a modest house on the outskirts of this southern Turkish city, a group of Syrian refugees congregate around freshly prepared meze. Jokes are exchanged. Mahmud al-Hosseini sits cross-legged, anxiously rubbing his wrists together. This is a nervous tic he...

The Syrian Revolution is not dead. It's alive and kicking but very different from the revolution of March 2011. Syrians talk about 3/2011 with fondness -- "the good old days" -- when the villagers faced government soldiers and protested with their voices and banners. They talk about the...

  Aleppo's Shariah Authority has issued recently a circular prevents the entry of  Flour material to areas still under the Assad control by officials who are in charge of the granaries and also for traders, Any violation will be subject to penalty. As Syria’s civil...

In the border towns where Syrian rebels recuperate and resupply, the buzz is that the long wait for Barack Obama may be near an end. The excitement is not the result of the White House announcement on June 13 that the United States will supply light weapons to the groups seeking to...