Radical Islamist group, The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) has kidnapped prominent Journalist Milad Shehabi in Aleppo today, 72 hours after arresting 7  media activists  by the same group in Aleppo, according to Activists. Shehabi runs Masaken Hanano News...

A powerful bombing rocked a central business district of central Beirut Friday, setting cars ablaze and killing five people, including a senior aide to former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, officials said.   The National News Agency said Mohammed Chatah and...

  As efforts intensify to bring the Syrian sides to a negotiating table in Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his grave concern about the continued and indiscriminate use of heavy weapons and mortar shelling in the ongoing conflict, most recently...

  More than 1000 people have been killed in 13 days of airstrikes on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and nearby towns by Bashar Assad’s forces, a Syrian Revolution General Commission said Thursday. Most victims are civilians, including scores of women and children,...