A Syrian lawmaker kidnapped by opposition jihadist fighters earlier this year was executed last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. A parliamentary source in Damascus, on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Mujhem al-Sahu from Deir Ezzor province in...

A Christian writer vows to convert to Islam if al-Qaeda main branch in Syria will release the Rev. Paolo Dall'Oglio, Jesuit Priest who was kidnapped in Raqqa, North east Syria last June. Mikhael Saad, a veteran Syrian dissident, who lives in Montreal, Canada, has...

Doha Centre for Media Freedom (DCMF) is organizing six training workshops for Syrian journalists, which will be held in Turkey and Jordan over the coming two months. From November 17-23, the centre is hosting two workshops in Istanbul; the first on international standards...

Al-Qaeda’s main branch in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has raided a wedding party in the suburb of Aleppo and ordered stopping music and singing, the Asharq al-Awsat reported, quoting Syrian activists. “One leader of the Islamic State warned residents...