Protesters clashed with police in Turkey's two biggest cities on Tuesday after the death of a 15-year-old boy who was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister during anti-government demonstrations last summer. Police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds in Istanbul and...

Activists reported that Damascus recently witnesses many incidences of arresting and detaining pro-regime people like informers, spies and popular committees' members in many neighborhoods. Activists confirmed that an informer in Bab Srijeh neighborhood, known to be a drug...

Syrian refugees in this border outpost were delighted to hear their home town of Azaz had been liberated - not from Bashar al-Assad's troops but from al-Qaeda fighters who subjected them to a regime that included torture and public beheadings. For Syrians who three years ago rose...