Community activists say refugees face harassment over their presumed support for ousted president's Muslim Brotherhood Syrian refugees in  Egypt  are bearing the brunt of a sudden wave of xenophobia, in one of the more unexpected side effects  of the removal  of...

    The wife of acclaimed Syrian artist Youssef Abdelke, whose works are displayed in museums around the world, appealed for his release on Saturday, after his arrest by regime security forces.   He had been arrested at a security checkpoint in the western port city of...

  No place for Shabiha corpses in Tartus graveyards, even if they were killed defending the Assad regime as their number has increased sharply in recent says as a result of violent fights between the FSA and pro-Assad militias . Some fanatics in the coastal city, Tartus, 350...

    As many as 6,000 foreign fighters from nearly 50 nations have now joined the brutal 2½-year civil war to unseat President Bashar Assad of Syria. The vast majority are veterans from the the Arab Springs of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. Islamist volunteers from Yemen, Somalia,...