Most Syrian children have missed years — if not decades — of schooling due to war and displacement. The conditions in Lebanon mean they could miss even more.
Lubna Shaheen was born in Homs, Syria. Soon after the revolution took off, she began volunteering as a humanitarian worker. The Syrian regime, however, wasn't happy about her work.
Children make up a big part of the population in places like Syria and Gaza, where hundreds have been killed in the fighting so far. For many of them, they have barely known a life without death or conflict.
Syria's rebels say the first American suicide bomber in Syria carried out a successful bombing on Sunday. Aryn Baker, Time's Middle East bureau chief, says hundreds of Westerners have joined the ranks of extremist groups in Syria.
For many outsiders, Homs is a symbol of the utter destruction and senselessness of the Syrian civil war. After two years of fighting, the government once again controls the city, or least what is left of it. Our BBC colleague Soumer Daghastani, who is from Homs, describes what the fighting has meant for his family.
Rebels in Syria have begun evacuating all but one small part of the key city of Homs. After months of siege and bombardment, the rebels cut a deal to surrender the town, but without becoming prisoners. Martin Chulov of the Guardian newspaper explains the deal and its significance.
Liz Sly of the Washington Post tells PRI's The World the reasons she sees behind the stalemate in Syria's civil war — and why she expects it to continue.
Intense clashes in the Syrian city of Homs pit government troops against Islamist fighters who are primarily aligned with the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaida affiliate. Wall Street Journal correspondent Sam Dagher is there and says that despite the fighting, Syria's government is pushing ahead with effort to prepare the city for June elections.
From the Occupy Wall Street movement to the economic crisis in Greece, artist Molly Crabapple has never shied away from politically charged stories. Now, she's lending her artistic talents to a project commemorating the more than 100,000 Syrians who have died during the past three years of conflict. The idea, she says, is to remember these people as individuals, not statistics.
More residents of the besieged Syrian city of Homs were able to evacuate Wednesday, as a shaky ceasefire allowed a UN humanitarian intervention to continue.
At least 1,100 people have been evacuated from Homs, a city that has been under siege for nearly three years during Syria's civil war. But twice as many are still left in the city, either too sick or scared to leave. And a UN official says those evacuated are often just "a bag of bones.