Two Syrian men purportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in east Lebanon were released several hours later, the National News Agency said Tuesday. The report said Mohammad Zakaria Yehya, 28, and Ismail Fahed Noureddine, 31, were released shortly before midnight. NNA had said the two men...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Official diplomatic documents revealed that a prominent intelligence figure in Syria requested from Lebanese well known figures to prepare for destructive acts in Lebanon to unstable the country and increase the disorder among people.  Two documents...

Umm Atef al-Darkouni sat in the corner of a hall in Sidon, in one of the complexes that hosts displaced Syrians. Ramadan brings back precious memories of better times for many refugees, and she reminisced about how things used to be in her home town of Qusair, before she was forced to flee....

Mohammad Nasif Khayrbik, a senior Syrian government security official close to President Bashar al-Assad, died Sunday morning after a long illness, state media said. Khayrbik was a key confidante of the Assad family and the target of EU and U.S. sanctions for his alleged role in putting down...