Syria  should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a  report  which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...

Throughout the bloody Syrian conflict, the ruling regime of President   Bashar Assad   has derided the armed opposition for its reliance on foreign fighters, usually seasoned militants that come from the battlefields of   Chechnya ,   Pakistan ,...

A Swedish imam has smuggled large quantities of weapons to rebels in Syria, a crime punishable by up to four years in prison. Sources told Sveriges Radio (SR) that the Syrian-born man was one of the rebels' key weapons suppliers and that he had been bringing arms into the civil...

  While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement in Northern Syria. This experience of reconstructing an administrative system through the bottom-up...