Husam Hezaber

An el­der­ly man and a woman were killed, two oth­ers wound­ed in a rock­et at­tack on the out­skirts of the city of Sarmin.

Al-Za­wiya’s caves shel­ter Syr­i­an fam­i­lies whose homes have been un­der at­tack as regime forces hound Idlib.

It is the first such vis­it in six years since mem­bers of US Con­gress went to Syr­ia led by late Sen­a­tor John Mc­Cain.

Routes into the city re­main closed on Mon­day as protests break out over de­te­ri­o­rat­ing liv­ing con­di­tions.

In a re­gion dec­i­mat­ed by an earth­quake and pop­u­lat­ed most­ly by IDPs, the in­tense heat is mak­ing life even hard­er.

Rima Haj Hus­sein was trapped un­der the rub­ble and forced to choose be­tween her life and her leg.

The hos­pi­tal was es­tab­lished as an ur­gent re­sponse to the quake dis­as­ter and the re­gion’s need for med­ical ser­vices.

Has­san Hamza pre­serves the craft of mak­ing the mu­si­cal in­stru­ment in a coun­try that has seen more than a decade of war.

Lack of cool­ing op­tions amid poor hous­ing con­di­tions leave many vul­ner­a­ble to heat-based ill­ness­es in north­ern Syr­ia.

UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil un­able to agree on ex­ten­sion to cross-bor­der aid to op­po­si­tion ar­eas, which ex­pired on Mon­day.