Iran and Russia have used their influence on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to get visas for U.N. aid workers and improve access for convoys in Syria , but much remains to be done, senior European officials told Reuters on Thursday. U.S....
Since year ago, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, had kidnapped 18 Syrian civilians from Durze community in al-Thaala village near Umm Walad in Daraa, despite the fact that the inhabitants of this village played an important role in providing aid and relief to Daraa...
Amnesty International has accused an al-Qaeda-linked group that controls large areas of northern Syria of torturing and killing detainees in secret prisons. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has "ruthlessly flouted the rights of local people", the rights group said...