A series of car bombs in mainly Shi'ite areas of Baghdad killed 57 people and wounded more than 150 on Saturday, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks on people celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The 12 separate blasts targeting markets, busy shopping...

Warplanes bombed a village in Syria's north overnight in an apparent effort by President Bashar al-Assad to prevent rebels fighting him from advancing on communities in the stronghold region of his Alawite sect. Assad's forces are on the defensive in his family's home province of...

  'Tragic accident' seems to be the alternative phrase for being slaughtered, killed or tortured to death in the Assad Intelligence chambers. The parents of Ismael Sharkes, 29, who tortured to death, have received his identity card, with no corpse to get; they ought to sign a paper...

  Syria's regime forces have executed 12 civilians, 1 woman, in Tibarat al-Sakhaneh village, 20 km south of Khanaser town in north Aleppo, activists reported to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.  ''The regime forces had executed the civilians after...