An Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda has arrested 1500 activists in Ar Raqqa, northeast Syria, after continuous series of abuses of Human rights the state of Iraq and al-Sham, according to Zaman Alwasl Arabic. Another sources from the city said that the real number...

The prime minister's wife met some of those caught up in the two-year conflict during a visit to a refugee camp in neighbouring Lebanon in March. Citing senior government sources,  The Times reported she had since pushed for a bolder humanitarian response. But Downing Street said...

  A car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in a town north of the Syrian capital, killing at least 13 people including 10 policemen, activists said Monday. The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said to AP the blast took place overnight in the town of Deir...

   A month ago Obama administration officials promised to deliver arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels in the hope of reversing the tide of a war that had turned against an embattled opposition.   But interviews with American, Western and Middle...