By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- Consider two heart-wrenching scenes that recently emerged from Syria. The first one is of children lining up behind 25 soldiers in the historic city of Palmyra, pointing pistols at the soldiers’ heads. The second is of a child killed in his Aleppo home by a...

Two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Observatory, which gathers its information from an activist network on the ground, identified the leaders as an Iraqi, Abu Osama...

At least 600 army defectors from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha were among a wanted list issued by Syrian regime and includes name of 21,000 defectors. The new wanted list that leaked to the media has included names of 21000 defectors who escaped fighting in the ranks of Syrian...

A new wanted list issued by Syrian regime army and leaked to the media has included names of 21000 defectors who escaped fighting in the ranks of Bashar al-Assad forces. Unconfirmed figures say around 100,000 soldiers and militants loyal to al-Assad have been killed in four-year armed...