More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...

  A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 in a Hezbollah bastion in south Beirut on Thursday, a health ministry source told AFP. "According to an initial toll, five people have been killed and more than 20 injured," the source said on condition of...

In front of me now, as I am writing this piece, are the names of fifteen person who died due to starvation exacerbated by dehydration. Regime forces have, on top of the food blockade, also cut off all water supplies to Yarmouk. The starved were all inhabitants of...

Five people were injured on Thursday when a bomb exploded near a bus in the Egyptian capital, two days after a blast at a police station in the Nile Delta city of  Mansoura  killed 14 people. The explosion happened in the Nasr City neighbourhood, in front of Al-Azhar...