Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem expressed alarm on Friday at a spike in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property coinciding with renewed U.S.-backed peace negotiations. The statement by 25 aid organizations said the number of demolitions...

  Syrian jihadist groups claimed today that a British national has carried out a huge suicide truck bombing in Syria. The attack would be the first time that a Briton has died in a suicide attack in Syria, the Times said. Jihadists named the man as Abu...

 At least 16 detainees from Sweida province and Jaramana city have been tortured to death with other 28 still arrested in Bashar Al Assad’s prisons, a new document by human rights activists said. The main stronghold of Druze sect has witnessed several pro-democracy...

The United Nations welcomed reports that an agreement has been reached to allow the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and for aid to be delivered, a UN spokesman said. The rebel-held Old Homs districts in the centre of the city have been under...