German police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old Syrian man suspected of preparing an Islamist terror attack in the country using powerful explosives, prosecutors said. The man, identified only as Yamen A., was held at dawn by special forces in the northeastern town of Schwerin, the...

More than 100,000 people have been detained inside war-torn Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, according to a London-based NGO.  In a statement on Monday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said some 106,727 people have been held since March...

An ongoing regime siege on the Eastern Ghouta region of Syrian capital Damascus has pushed the local population to the verge of famine, including eight-year-old Rahaf Havva, who weighs only 10 kilograms. A main opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, Eastern Ghouta has...

Syria’s armed opposition, attending a seventh round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana on Monday, presented the UN with documents about human rights violations in the war-torn country. According to an opposition source, the four dossiers included allegations about Bashar...