Three years ago, Syria’s hospitals were the envy of the Middle East. The average life expectancy was 75, higher than in many parts of the UK. Nine out of every 10 medicines provided by the country’s extensive network of public and private clinics were made by the country’s own...

A report released by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) and University of Toronto's Citizen Lab details malware attacks used by pro-Syrian government forces against the opposition. The paper is co-authored by Citizen Lab security researchers Morgan Marquis-Boire and John...

Five people were injured on Thursday when a bomb exploded near a bus in the Egyptian capital, two days after a blast at a police station in the Nile Delta city of  Mansoura  killed 14 people. The explosion happened in the Nasr City neighbourhood, in front of Al-Azhar...

7 media activists have been kidnapped by an armed group in Aleppo Wednesday, Syrian Revolution Commission said.  The activists were in ‘Shada Al Horriya’ satellite channel bureau when two cars likely affiliated to the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) stormed...