DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the Kremlin serves the country’s interests ...

According to the United Nations, a slum is an area of a city mostly characterized ... The Independent Kidnapped journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria 12 years ago. The Assad regime collapse ...

Labaki had cast Zain Al Rafeea – then a 12-year-old living in the slums of Beirut with his family that had been forced to flee from the city of Daraa in southwestern Syria – as the young ...