Turkish jets and artillery have targeted Kurdish forces south of the strategic town of Jarablus, according to a monitor and local sources, as Turkey continues a major military offensive inside northern Syria. Turkey first sent tanks across the border on Wednesday as part of a two-pronged operation against Islamic State of Iraq ... Read More »

The Syrian military and rebels unleashed deadly new assaults on each other Friday in Aleppo, with insurgents shelling a mosque for the duration of weekly prayers and government airstrikes hittingcompetition neighborhoods in escalating bloodshed the U.N. decried as a “immense brush aside for civilian lives by way of all events.” ... Read More »

An entire generation of Syrians has had its education truncated, and the country’s once flourishing academic community has been scattered or driven underground. The scale of the problem, according to the president of the Institute of International Education (IIE), Allan Goodman, is “unprecedented” in the near 100-year history of his ... Read More »