(Vatican Radio)  The family of Italian Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio have appealed to those responsible for his kidnapping one year ago in Syria to release him or give them news about his fate. 59 year old Father Dall’Oglio went missing on July 29, 2013 in Raqqa in the...

World Bulletin - At least 116 people were killed by government forces in fighting across Syria during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, opposition activists have said. The deaths included 21 children and 16 women, according to the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights....

BEIRUT (AFP) : A fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) jihadists has killed nearly 50 fighters from both sides as the Kurds seized several ISIS positions, an activist group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Douma (AFP) - Twelve people were killed, among them a child, in Syrian army shelling late Wednesday on Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, a monitoring group said "At least 12 people were killed, among them a child and a woman... in fierce shelling by regime troops on...