Al-Qaeda-linked fighters have besieged some areas in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo and are readying to storm the village of al-Atareb nearby, Al Arabiya News Channel reported activists as saying on Friday. Zaman Alwasl reporter said the Emir of the Islamic...

  On Dec. 9, the Syrian human rights lawyer and founder of the Violations Documentation Center (VDC), Razan Zaitouneh, was kidnapped in the city of Duma (Eastern Ghouta, east of Damascus) with three other activists from the VDC: Samira al-Khalil, Wael Hamada and Nazim al-Hamadi....

9 Islamist groups have merged in new fighting bloc in Aleppo province, according to Zaman Alwasl source. The newly formed Al Mujahideen Army consisted of Division 19, Islamic Al Nour Movement, Istakem Kma Amart Gathering, Nor Al din Al Zinki Battalions,...

Syrian Regime's Deputy Chief Mufti gives Bashar al-Assad's army soldiers religious permission to rape women in order to take revenge on them and on rebel forces. Human rights groups report that thousands of women have been raped by Syrian army soldiers in the ongoing war,...