Dr. Fayez Al-Khalif, Minister of Higher Education in the opposition's Salvation Government, was found dead on Wednesday in the western countryside of Aleppo province after he went missing last week.

In December 2010, protests erupted in Tunisia, triggering similar demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa, including in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Ten years since the start of the Arab Spring, photographers who captured the years of uprising reflect on what they saw and what...

Leading human rights organisations in Russia have released their first comprehensive report on abuses in the decade-old conflict in Syria, condemning Moscow’s direct participation in indiscriminate bombings of civilians, its backing of the Assad regime’s use of torture, and culpability...

  Four regime forces were killed in two land-mine explosions planted by Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Raqqa province, a local reporter said Thursday.   The explosion of two land mines rocked two military vehicles of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps in the Mount Bishri in Raqqa...