12/12/2015

BY STEVEN KATZ As for the question of risk in admitting refugees, it’s important to maintain some perspective. LIKE ALL soldiers deployed to the Iraq war in 2006, I was trained to adhere to the laws of armed conflict. Soldiers…

Syria's antiquities chief has accused Turkey of refusing to return looted objects from ancient heritage sites in Syria or to provide information about them, allegations denied by the Turkish government. Damascus and Ankara have been at…

By ANNE BARNARD and HWAIDA SAAD BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Syrian pastry chef turned antigovernment activist, Bebars al-Talawy, has spent nearly three years in besieged rebel enclaves, growing ever more gaunt, exasperated and sick of…

Progress is being made in the Syrian peace process, which is key to the fight against the Islamic State group.   By Paul D. Shinkman Major players involved in the Syrian peace process now agree it's only a matter of time before…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. government agency report has warned that Islamic State has the ability to create fake Syrian passports, a federal official confirmed on Friday. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Social tensions rise as slain Lebanese soldier is buried A sustained burst of machine gun fire rang out on the streets of Baalbek, near Lebanon's border with war-torn Syria. "Don't worry. It's a funeral… We're used to that so…

At a Wednesday meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee, US General Paul Selva told lawmakers that despite America’s military capacity to establish a no-fly zone in Syria, the country may not really want to do so in order to avoid…

Homs Province: Clashes took place between the regime forces and allied militiamen against the rebel and Islamist factions around the village of Oyoun Hsein in the northern countryside of Homs, amid mutual shelling between the two sides…

Deir Ezzor Province: The regime warplanes attacked places in the town of Zobyan in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor leading to wound some people. Hama Province: The regime forces shelled places in the villages of al-…

Al- Hasakah Province: The number of people who were killed in the three explosions carried out by IS on the health center, the vegetable market and on other area in the town of Tal Tamer inhabited by Assyrians has risent o 28, among the…