Striking Algerian judges returned to work Wednesday, a day after their main union announced an end to a mass 10-day walkout over alleged executive interference in the judiciary. Hearings resumed in Sidi M'hamed court, the main jurisdiction in Algiers, an AFP journalist said, while in second...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of State Intelligence in southern Ankhel town was killed by Syrian rebels on Monday, local activists said.  Major. Mohamed Jabbour, originally from Bashar al-Assad’s Qerdaha town, was assassinated by a sniper bullet in the key town of Daraa province. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians, including two children, were killed in regime airstrikes on the embattled opposition bastion of northern Idlib province, local activists said. The strikes hit the villages of al-Kafayr and al-Janpidiya, and the town of Jisr al-Shughour.  Dozens of...

The family of detainee Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Suwaidan received his death certificate on Tuesday after being held by regime military intellignce last year and locked up in notorious Saydnaya prison north of the capital. Activists said that Al-Suwaidan was arrested and detained in Saydnaya...