A car bomb exploded late Friday in the centre of the flashpoint northern Syria town of Manbij, causing damage but no casualties, a war monitor said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network...

The Austrian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it has allocated an additional 2.8 million euros in humanitarian aid to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the situation in Syria, according to Die Presse. This move comes after the fall of the...

The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged passports, Lebanese judicial and security officials said. Assad’s uncle departed the day before. Rasha...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two Lebanese security officials said on Friday. The officials said that “many...