In parts 'The Man Who Sold His Skin' requires a little imagination, but this romance meets drama meets satire is at the same time an urgent revisiting of the refugee crisis

Five military groups in northern Syria operating under the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) united under the umbrella the Syrian Liberation Front, Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reports. The groups Hamza Division, Mutasim Division...

Hezbollah began bringing Iranian fuel into Lebanon via Syria today, a move the group says should ease a crippling energy crisis but which opponents say risks provoking US sanctions, Reuters reports....

Lebanon's former Foreign Minister and head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, said by virtue of nature and geography, the relationship between his country and Syria will resume....

The UN has been accused of attempting to return refugees in Syria's Rukban camp forcibly to areas held by the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The international organisation has denied...

TankerTrackers.com has visual confirmation that an Iranian tanker is discharging petrol in Syria's Baniyas port which is destined for neighbouring Lebanon, Reuters reported the online oil shipment tracking service saying today....

A spokesman for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Omer Celik, yesterday described the French cement company Lafarge's support for Daesh as a "crime against humanity". Speaking at...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad in Moscow yesterday. The two leaders criticised the role of foreign military forces in the ongoing conflict in Syria....

Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, UN war crimes investigators said today, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary...

Terror threats emanating from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq pose a greater danger to the United States than those that might emerge from Afghanistan, the Director of National Intelligence...

Russian security forces have completed the search for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers missing since 1982 in a cemetery near the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp outside the Syrian capital...

Turkey yesterday sent military reinforcements into the Idlib governorate, northwest of Syria after two of its soldiers were killed and three others were injured in the area. Local sources said a...

Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another...

Turkey has condemned a statement by the Arab League saying that Ankara is interfering in regional affairs. The allegation is a blow to recent reconciliation efforts between Turkey and...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on Saturday vowed to avenge the two Turkish soldiers who were killed in Idlib Governorate, northwest Syria. Akar arrived on Saturday in the southern...

Two more Turkish soldiers were killed in cross-border operations in Syria and Iraq, Reuters reported the defence ministry as saying on Sunday, bringing the total military casualties to four...

Head of Hamas Abroad Khaled Meshaal congratulated Palestinian refugee students honoured in a ceremony in northern Syria on Friday, Quds Press reported. Meshaal delivered a speech via telephone at...

For a Palestinian-Syrian-Ukrainian who grew up in the largest refugee camp in Syria, becoming a dancer doesn't strike me as the most obvious career choice. Yet of the three...

Lebanon has vowed that it will not deport six Syrian refugees, following an outcry by human rights organisations fearing that they could be detained and tortured by the Syrian...

The Paris Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a four-year prison sentence against Rifaat Al-Assad, the uncle of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, for "misappropriating public funds and money laundering". Last...

At least 205 irregular migrants were held in Turkey on Thursday, authorities said, Anadolu reports. As many as 46 migrants, including 38 Afghan and eight Pakistani nationals, were held...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu today met with Syrian opposition figures in the capital Ankara, Anadolu reports. Cavusoglu met with Salem Al-Meslet, head of the National Coalition of Syrian...

The UN today sent 37 truckloads of humanitarian aid through Turkey to Idlib, northwestern Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. The trucks crossed into the Syrian territory through the Cilvegozu border...

The United Arab Emirates yesterday sentenced a Syrian human rights activist to ten years in prison on charges of terrorism and insulting the prestige of the state. Abdul Rahman...

A German court in Paderborn yesterday sentenced a Syrian refugee to life imprisonment for murdering his wife last year. The man was found guilty of stabbing his wife more...

Syrian regime forces on Wednesday entered Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in southwestern Syria under a Russian-brokered cease-fire deal, according to local sources, Anadolu reports. The sources said regime forces toured...

France's highest court on Tuesday dismissed a previous legal ruling that struck out a charge for complicity in crimes against humanity against cement firm Lafarge over its dealings in...

Hostilities between the besieged residents of Daraa Al-Balad city and forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad have ended after Russian pressure forced opposition fighters to accept a truce

Amnesty International has released a report to say that 66 Syrian refugees who returned home have been detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Syrian security forces. The report, "You're...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) yesterday called for the Syrian regime to halt its crimes that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity against the people...

Qatar yesterday condemned the Syrian regime's "brutal attack" on Daraa, saying it led to the displacement of dozens of families. A statement issued by the Qatari Foreign Ministry described...

Syria said on Saturday that it welcomed Lebanon's request to import Egyptian gas for energy generation via its territory after Lebanese ministers made the highest-level visit to Damascus in...