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Lebanon (MNN) — More than 10 million people in five Middle Eastern countries require help to survive another day. UN officials say it is the highest level of need since the Syrian refugee crisis began in 2011. As Lebanon crumbles, Syrian…

The tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring has been an opportunity for some to declare the protests a failure – not least in the face of ongoing conflict in Syria, Libya, and Yemen. Looking back on those turbulent events, it’s become fairly…

BEIRUT (AP) — Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of…

Vladimir Putin visits Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on 11 September 2017 Russia has been developing the Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia in western Syria in preparation for it to receive strategic nuclear bombers as part of plans to…

Ankara plans to establish two medical educational facilities in a small Syrian town across the border as Turkish entrenchment deepens in Syria.  This picture taken on Nov. 26, 2020, shows Syrian students from "Aleppo University in…

Some Western European countries have fared better at integrating Syrian refugees, while others failed amid rising far-right nationalism. Millions of people have fled to Europe since the beginning of the Syrian war in 2011,…

The UN humanitarian office estimates that 80% of Syria’s population of 17.5 million currently lives in poverty, and civilians face a range of dangers, from instability, arbitrary detention and abduction, to criminality and…

Aleppo Governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists in northern Aleppo countryside have reported that cars and trucks carrying food and fuel entered the areas held by Kurdish forces in northern Aleppo countryside…

Deir ez-Zor governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a member of the Internal Security Forces (Al-Asaish), near a SDF post in the town of Al-Shuhayl in eastern…

As the Turkish government continues to recruit mercenaries of its loyal factions and prepare to send them to Libya, Russia's security firm "Wagner" continues to recruit Syrians and turn them into mercenaries to send them to Libya in order…