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Beyond the oil wells, Syrians rummage through rubbish in a desperate search for something to sell, repurpose – or eat. A child sifts through a rubbish dump near an oil field in the countryside of al-Malikiya in northeast…

The Middle East has navigated another tense year without the outbreak of a major conflict. But tensions remain, many of them surrounding Israel, which contends with four serious simultaneous border conflicts. The officials…

Iraq is tightening security along its 600 km (400 mile) border with Syria to curb the movement of Islamic State militants, drug smuggling and other illegal activities. Iraqi commanders on Monday toured the remote desert frontier controlled…

Israeli night raids targeting arms depots and military positions in eastern Syria killed at least five soldiers and 11 allied fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday. The Israeli air force carried out more than 18…

The death toll in the Israeli bombing on Deir ez-Zur governorate in Syria raised to at least 57 dead and 20 wounded, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) told See. In statements to See, SOHR Head said that some of the dead people…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Damascus government uses the file of detainees and persons who disappeared in its basements as a commodity that it trades in exchange for huge sums of money for their release; noting…

Three Syrian soldiers were killed Sunday when gunmen attacked their outpost close to the demarcation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attackers targeted the regime roadblock…

At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old civil war, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old…

The Israeli missile strike against a series of military positions in eastern Syria after midnight killed 57 fighters, a war monitor reported Wednesday. The "intense" missile strike targeted positions of Syrian forces and allied…

Above, a picture taken from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights shows the border fence with the southwestern Syrian governorate of Quneitra. (AFP file photo) Attackers target regime roadblock…