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Nearly 850 dead in Syria regime jails in 2014: monitor

Nearly 850 prisoners have died in Syrian regime jails this year, many executed summarily or tortured to death, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. "From the beginning of the year until May 13, 847 prisoners, including 15 below the age of 18 and six women,...

Assad's airstrikes kill at least 12 near Aleppo

At least 12 people have been killed and 48 wounded in air strikes on the northern Syrian city of Atareb near Aleppo, local sources told Zaman Alwasl on Wednesday. Regime’s warplanes have conducted a series of airstrikes that killed at least 12...

Syrian official welcomes UN mediator's resignation

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian official on Wednesday welcomed the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, calling for the appointment of a "more objective" mediator. Fayez Sayegh, a member of parliament and a senior member of...