19/04/2015

Baalbek, Lebanon - A former Syrian army general who deserted in 2013 was found murdered in Lebanon near the border on Friday, with his family suspecting that Islamic State group jihadists killed him. "General Yehya Zahra, who had…

Beirut: The Islamic State group is now issuing photo identity cards in Syria`s Raqa province, but only to males, along with a range of administrative documents, a monitor and activists said Friday.   The Syrian Observatory for…

UNITED NATIONS –  U.N. Security Council members were moved to tears Thursday as the first eyewitness to the latest suspected chlorine attacks on civilians in Syria emerged from the country to give a graphic eyewitness account of dying…

The Islamic State (IS) has started to issue ID cards and driving licenses for people living under their authority in Syria. Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdulrahman confirmed that IS is issuing ID…

Johannesburg - ‘The deepest circle of hell,” is how UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described the horror which has unfolded this week in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Just as Canadian…

Dar'a province: 18 civilians were killed today by air strikes on areas in Dar'a, including 8 civilians ( a woman with her daughter and 4 of her children ) were killed by aerial bombardment on Dael, 2 civilians were killed by aerial…

BEIRUT (AP) — Two Syrian activist groups say government airstrikes on opposition-held towns near the Jordanian border have killed at least 16 people, including five children. The Local Coordination Committees activist collective and the…

Young Syrian men in regime-controlled areas are using any means necessary, including violent protests, to avoid military conscription -- even if they support the government. More than 80,000 soldiers and other pro-regime fighters have been…

Syria Civil War: 5 Children Killed By Assad's Forces, Human Rights Group Claims Five children were among at least 10 people killed in Syria when forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad bombed suburbs of the capital…

A group monitoring the Syrian war said at least nine people including five children were killed in a Syrian army air strike that hit a school in a rebel-held area of the country's second city Aleppo on Sunday, though the army denied the…