Besieged civilians of Daraa al-Balad, the capital of southern Daraa province, have made a public appeal to the Syrian regime to flee the city, seeking to escape a wide-scale attack by Russia-backed regime forces that left two people dead, local activists said Tuesday.   The...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said Tuesday that parliamentarians have agreed on the necessity to accelerate the forming of a new government. "I listened, during the consultations, to the parliamentarians' views and their future visions, and there was a consensus on the...

 A Palestinian rights monitoring has documented the arrest of 36 Palestinian refugees from the Sayyidah Zaynab camp near Damascus since March 201, five of them were tortured to death by the Syrian regime security.   The Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria said in a...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that “apparently amount to war crimes” during an 11-day war in May against the Hamas militant group. The international human rights organization issued its conclusions after...