A leading Syrian comedian fainted after being slapped by a woman asked him to mediate with Bashar al-Assad authorities to get her son out of prison.   Activists have circulated via social media pages a story of a woman from Quneitra province was begging Duraid...

  Muslims throughout the world have been marking Eid al-Adha, but in war-torn Syria there is nothing to celebrate. Most people are struggling to meet the most basic of needs: food, water, and shelter. Their plight has been highlighted by Arabic media reports which cite a...

 Rebels close to take over the central prison of Aleppo after two suicide bombs and ongoing clashed, activists reported. ''50 soldiers of Assad regime forces have been killed among them a high ranking officer,  with more than 500 detainees have been released  including...

Twenty-one people, including four children and six women, were killed when a minibus hit a mine in the southern  Syria n town of Noa on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Opposition activists told the Observatory the minibus drove over a...