Thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah militants were massed around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, according to rebels and a senior commander in the Lebanese Shiite movement, broadening Hezbollah’s backing of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and stoking fears of an imminent...

  Leaked YouTube video by activists shows the Commander of military special operations in Aleppo, Brigadier Mohammed Khaddour next to Mohamed Wahid Akkad, and Governor of Aleppo in meeting with 'Shabiha' pro-Assad's militia in the Shi'ite villages of nobbol and Zahra....

At least eight Hezbollah fighters were killed on Tuesday in fighting against Syrian rebels near Damascus, Free Syrian Army chief of joint staff Salim Idriss told Al Arabiya. In southern Lebanon, thousands of Hezbollah supporters held funerals for two fighters who were killed while fighting...

  About six months ago Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan disappeared in Damascus and was reportedly being held incommunicado by Assad's regime. He had been drawing for the Al-Fida (or Fedaa) newspaper in the city of Hama when he was grabbed. Now. he is about to be put on trial....