Lebanon plans to lower internet prices and boost speed after cutting landline and mobile call prices by up to half this month to boost consumption and ease pressure on consumers, its telecoms minister said on Monday. A country of about 4 million people, Lebanon has some of the...
On February 22, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2139 demanded that all parties, “in particular the Syrian authorities” open corridors for humanitarian aid across conflict lines. More than a month later, little has changed. In several Damascus suburbs,...
Aleppo is central to President Bashar al-Assad's goal of rescuing a viable state from the ruins of Syria; hence the grim message from his forces to its residents, that one equals five. "We told them every shell (they fire) equals five barrel bombs," said Amar, a local policeman in...
Sham News has published an interview with the deputy Amir of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Abdul Karim Krymsky, a Crimean Tatar, in which he criticizes the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham for their behavior towards people in Aleppo. Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar is led...
