The workers were traveling in the Idlib area when gunmen blocked their path, shot at their convoy, seized them and took them to an unknown location, according to a state news agency report. "An armed terrorist group today kidnapped a number of workers in the mission of the International...

  Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan passed away under torture in Bashar al-Assad security chambers, the International Cartoonists Rights Network said .   Dr. Robert Russell, Executive Director of Cartoonists Rights Network International said in a statement ,...

The main Syrian opposition group within the Syrian National Coalition said Sunday it would not attend a proposed peace conference in Geneva and would quit if the whole coalition participated. “The Syrian National Council, which is the biggest bloc in the Coalition, has taken the firm...

Lebanon's government is enforcing new rules to limit the flow of Syrian refugees into the country, as the United Nations now registers about 3,000 a day. Yet many of the Syrians in Lebanon are not looking for assistance. Rather, they believe refugee status is a ticket to Europe or the United...