Nisreen El-Shamayleh

Most Syr­i­an refugees with chron­ic dis­eases are bat­tling against the odds to get treat­ment af­ter los­ing free med­ical care

Schools across the re­gion, con­sid­ered one of agency’s most suc­cess­ful projects, might have to de­lay new aca­d­e­m­ic year.

Not all are con­vinced that Is­rael’s move to al­low trav­el to the mosque dur­ing Ra­madan is sim­ply a “good­will ges­ture”.

As­sad is un­easy and feels in­se­cure about the most strate­gi­cal­ly im­por­tant Syr­i­an bor­der: the one it shares with Jor­dan.

Build­ing on the group’s grow­ing re­gion­al clout and re­forms in Jor­dan, the Broth­ers have ex­pand­ed their me­dia pres­ence.

School in Turkey fund­ed by char­i­ties faces chal­lenges to fos­ter “up­com­ing gen­er­a­tions who will rule over Syr­ia”.

En­cour­aged by up­ris­ings in neigh­bour­ing coun­tries, Jor­da­ni­ans have tak­en to the streets to de­mand po­lit­i­cal re­forms.

De­spite protests, in­clud­ing ones call­ing for his down­fall, King Ab­dul­lah says to press forth with polls

For­mer Syr­i­an PM tells Russ­ian FM that no ne­go­ti­a­tions can take place so long as As­sad re­mains in pow­er.

Mo­hammed al-Da­habi, who was once one of the coun­try’s most feared of­fi­cials, has been sen­tenced to 13 years in prison.