Journalist Moayyad Skaif has accused Syrian reconciliation minister of c omplicity in the murder of his family members in Assad's prisons. On his Facebook page, Skaif accused Ali Haidar of conspiracy to arrest members of his families, in particular Bassel Skaif, and he...

Turned away three times since fleeing the bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo in January, mother of eight Faten Darwish has given up on getting her family into a refugee camp in southeast Turkey. Instead, the 33-year old lives with her husband and children in a dingy...

Aleppo is central to President Bashar al-Assad's goal of rescuing a viable state from the ruins of Syria; hence the grim message from his forces to its residents, that one equals five. "We told them every shell (they fire) equals five barrel bombs," said Amar, a local policeman in...

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared over two weeks ago en route to Beijing, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday, citing new satellite data. All 239 people on board were presumed dead,...