A Syrian government air raid struck a school in an opposition-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least ten people, including five children, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

  (By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Torture Victim Profile)- Captain and military judge Nayef Faisal al-Rifai  was arrested on March 22 2012, only few days following his sister’s detention, under accusation of conspiring on the regime.  The...

In cooperation with the Syrian Association for the Missing and Prisoners of Conscience, Zaman al-Wasl has published  54 photos of mass torture for Syrian detainees that were a part of  photos smuggled out of Syria by a former Syrian military police photographer mid 2013....

(Reuters) - The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook and denounced by a Shi'ite paramilitary group's satellite news channel in reaction to a Reuters report last week that detailed lynching and looting in the city of Tikrit. The threats...