(Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 10 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death in absentia on Saturday but postponed sentencing of its leader and other senior members tried in the case, judicial sources said. Those sentenced were convicted on charges...

Hundreds of Syrians have been released from government prisons after an amnesty granted by President Bashar al-Assad to mark his re-election this week, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 320 prisoners were released from northern Aleppo...

(Middle East Monitor)- The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the death of 3,204 people in Syria in the month of May alone, 66 per cent of who were civilians. The forces of the Syrian regime killed 1,795 civilians, including 290 children and 173 women....

  ALEPPO, Syria — Standing amid dust and rubble, Abu Ahmad remembers better times in Hanano, a neighborhood in east Aleppo. "I still miss the old men there, sitting on the streets, inviting strangers to have tea with them," said the 28-year-old former computer programmer....