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Blast kills three in Syria's Sweida: governor

A rigged motorcycle exploded in Syria’s Sweida city, which the government controls, killing three people and injuring seven others on Wednesday night, an official there said. “The situation is stable after the incident, and life is going on as normal,” Amer al-Eshi, the governor of...

Oil supertanker set for Syria detained in Gibraltar

A supertanker suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions was detained in Gibraltar Thursday, the territory's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said. The Grace 1 vessel was halted in the early hours of Thursday by Gibraltar police and customs agencies, aided by a...

Survivors recount horror tales of Syrian prisons

The travails of three women, 38-year-old Refeyda Zeytun, her sister and mother began at a hospital in Haresta region in the Syrian capital of Damascus, after her mother was injured in an airstrike.  Instead of treating them, they were arrested by Syrian regime forces, on suspicion that...