Amnesty International said on Friday that Syrian insurgent groups might have committed war crimes in their heavy bombardment of a Kurdish-controlled area of the northern city of Aleppo. The rights watchdog said it had collected evidence of the killing of dozens of civilians by indiscriminate...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have launched campaign calling for lifting the siege on al-Waer neighbourhood, the last  stronghold of revolution  in Homs, because it suffers of severe shortage of food, medicine and water, threatening of humanitarian crisis...

Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption. The protesters, who had...

The last paediatrician in Aleppo has been killed in an airstrike believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime. Reports from the besieged city said Dr Wassim was among 14 people killed when jets attacked the Al Quds hospital in Syria. The airstrike, which destroyed the hospital,...