For 32-year-old Uhood from Beirut's Tariq al-Jdideh district, corruption in Lebanon's leadership is the reason she has to shower at a friend's house when water pipes run dry at home. It's also why she has to pay what she calls a "mafia" of private electricity providers to cover for poor...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of State Intelligence in southern Ankhel town was killed by Syrian rebels on Monday, local activists said.  Major. Mohamed Jabbour, originally from Bashar al-Assad’s Qerdaha town, was assassinated by a sniper bullet in the key town of Daraa province. ...

The family of detainee Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Suwaidan received his death certificate on Tuesday after being held by regime military intellignce last year and locked up in notorious Saydnaya prison north of the capital. Activists said that Al-Suwaidan was arrested and detained in Saydnaya...

Germany charged two alleged former Syrian secret service officers with participating in crimes against humanity, in what rights activists said Tuesday would be the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan and Eyad al-Gharib were arrested in February together...