A car bomb has killed 20 people and wounded dozens in Sinjar, in eastern Idlib Province. Most of the martyrs were women who were shopping: the car was parked in a market which has a cloth bazaar every Thursday, visited by browsers from more than 30 kilometers away. EA

An al Qaeda splinter group has demanded that Christians in a Syrian city it controls pay a levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection, according to a statement posted online on Wednesday. The Islamic State in  Iraq  and the Levant (ISIL),...

Syrian Relief Office in Jordan has been closed over lack of responsibility by National Coalition Aid Unit,  former director said to Zaman Alwasl. Rima Flaihan, a prominent Syrian opposition figure, and a member of the SNC, said that a volunteer team formed in 2012 in Jordan,...

Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said on Thursday. In a report entitled "Trigger Happy", the human rights group...