A car bomb killed at least 20 people on Monday in the Syrian town of Darkush in the northwestern Idlib province, near the Turkish border, a rights group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the the toll was expected to rise, as a large number of people suffered serious...

  Once seen as the capital of Syria's revolution, Homs is now caught in a vicious stalemate between regime and rebel forces. James Harkin, the British Guardian reporter visits a divided city, where kidnappings are rife and chemical disarmament a low priority I first met Abu Ali at...

A Syrian newsreader carried on broadcasting live despite two bombs exploding behind him. A startled  Syrian  television presenter kept his show going after two car bombs went off behind him before finally being told to abandon his seat. The devices exploded near...

  Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan passed away under torture in Bashar al-Assad security chambers, the International Cartoonists Rights Network said .   Dr. Robert Russell, Executive Director of Cartoonists Rights Network International said in a statement ,...