The United States last month engaged directly with a designated terrorist group in Syria in a significant policy shift, a move explained by senior US official Nikolas Granger during an interview with Rudaw on Monday.
Daniel Sulaiman, 25, canceled his plans to return from Dubai to his Syrian hometown of Tartous to celebrate the first Christmas, following the ouster of the iron-fisted President Bashar al-Assad, with his loved ones.
In a Damascus morgue, two women sift through pictures pinned on a bulletin board, one by one.
On Sunday, schools in the Syrian capital Damascus resumed classes for the first time in half a century without a dictator as president. Those in control now are Islamist rebels with a history of radicalism, but they have not yet imposed any Taliban-like restrictions, allowing both girls and boys to continue their education.
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