Egypt detained more than 1,500 refugees from Syria, including Palestinians and 250 children, before forcing most to leave the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday. The New York-based watchdog said the refugees were detained for weeks and even months, and that some of the...

  Religious extremism has noticeably increased among armed groups and fighting battalions on ground in Syria. Many activists tried to understand reasons behind this phenomenon; especially it is strange and was not known in the Syria society. Moreover, the...

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah was the subject of mocking at a Lebanese television program this week, raising anger among his supporters who protested against the show. His supporters took to the streets on Friday, burning tires and blocking roads in several parts of Lebanon. It...

A Syrian lawmaker kidnapped by opposition jihadist fighters earlier this year was executed last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. A parliamentary source in Damascus, on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Mujhem al-Sahu from Deir Ezzor province in...