London, (IANS)- Citizen reporters are increasingly getting stories out of remote areas of Syria that are difficult for traditional media to reach during the ongoing conflict, according to data collated for Index on Censorship magazine. The magazine worked with Syria Tracker, an...

Young Syrian opposition activists living with the constant dangers of more than three years at war are braving bombardment by government forces and jihadists' threats to watch their favourite World Cup teams. In Raqa province, controlled by powerful jihadist group the Islamic...

  8 Jihadist fighters killed when an Iraqi drone targeted a convoy of al-Qaeda renegade group in the northwest Iraqi city of Tal Afar Sunday, Zaman Alwasl source said. Two fighters from ‘Ahrar al-Tayyaneh revolutionaries,’ Syrian rebel...

(AFP)- Syria has freed after 21 years in jail an ex-horse rider known to have been an equestrian rival of one of President Bashar al-Assad's late brothers, reports said Sunday. The release of Adnan Qassar is part of a wide-reaching amnesty that Assad decreed last week, and has...