(Profile of Torture Victim)- Hussam Idriss Idriss was in his way to his hometown Qusair when the Syrian security arrested him near the Syrian-Lebanese borders early 2013. The young carpenter, who was working in Lebanon, had spent months in State Security headquarters in Damascus...

   Syria said on Tuesday only 6,000 residents remain in the war-battered Palestinian camp Yarmouk on the edge of Damascus that has seen intensified fighting since Islamic State launched an offensive to seize it from rival insurgents. U.N. and Syrian officials had earlier...

  In statement posted online, the Islamic Union of Ajnad Al-Sham declared war on the Islamic State, saying all bases and strongholds of the extremist group in the southern suburbs of Damascus are a legitimate target. Ajnad al-Sham group, which operates south of the capital, said,...

In cooperation with the Syrian Association for the Missing and Prisoners of Conscience, Zaman al-Wasl has published  54 photos of mass torture for Syrian detainees that were a part of  photos smuggled out of Syria by a former Syrian military police photographer mid 2013....