(AFP)- Jihadists on Thursday seized a gas field in the desert region of Palmyra, in central Syria, a monitoring group and the governor of Homs said. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Islamic State (IS) fighters on Thursday morning attacked the Shaar gas...

(AFP)- The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence, international agencies said on Wednesday. Save the Children, in a report, "Too Young to Wed," said children marrying in Syria before the...

(Reuters) - Hezbollah and the Syrian branch of al Qaeda have fought a deadly five-day battle in Syria near the border with Lebanon, a Hezbollah source and a fighter for the Nusra Front said on Thursday. Hezbollah is a Shi'ite Muslim militant group that has fought alongside troops...

(Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- For many years, even before the current conflict, torture and ill-treatment were consistently reported in regime’s prisons, and detainees were often held beyond the...