(Daily Mail)- Boris Johnson yesterday said he was 'sickened' by reports that Bashar al-Assad's regime tortured and hanged 13,000 political prisoners in four years. Amid compelling evidence that the Syrian president's henchmen carried out an unprecedented 'policy of extermination', the Foreign...

By David Patrikarakos ( RFE/RL )- 2017, it seems, will be no less chaotic than its predecessor -- an aphorism made plain by a mere glance at the state of international politics extending from Paris to Washington. But nowhere is this trend clearer than in that most tumultuous of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s vacuum missiles killed three people in central Hama province on Tuesday, activists said as regime and rebels swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children.  The missile attack targeted the villages of al-Jaberiya,...

The Syrian government and rebel groups swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children, in Hama province Tuesday evening, pro-opposition activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition-aligned group, said government...