Prisoner amnesties decreed by the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, during the country’s 10-year war have freed less than 6% of detainees, with an estimated 136,000 people remaining in state prisons, a report has revealed. The amnesties, which were hailed as acts of benevolence by officials...

Two girls of Egyptian nationality, aged 12 and 15 years, were found dead on Monday in the Al Hol camp in North East Syria, Save the Children said, again highlighting the risks that women and children face daily in such conditions. The child rights organization said the exact circumstances of...

Funerals were held Monday for the six victims who died in Sunday's bombing in Istanbul, including a funeral for Arzu Ozsoy and her 15-year-old daughter Yagmur Ucar. Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed...

 Israeli airstrikes killed two Syrian soldiers and wounded three others when they slammed into an airbase in the province of Homs, a Syrian army statement said. The statement said Israeli warplanes fired missiles after flying over neighboring Lebanon. It added that some of the missiles...