A Syrian government air raid struck a school in an opposition-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least ten people, including five children, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

  (By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Torture Victim Profile)- Captain and military judge Nayef Faisal al-Rifai  was arrested on March 22 2012, only few days following his sister’s detention, under accusation of conspiring on the regime.  The...

Syrian Civil Defense officials of rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo city called on citizens to stay in their shelters and basements to avoid Syrian regime's aerial bombardment as the death toll of Saturday rose to 50 people at least. Civil Defense workers said at least 35 people...

(Reuters) - The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook and denounced by a Shi'ite paramilitary group's satellite news channel in reaction to a Reuters report last week that detailed lynching and looting in the city of Tikrit. The threats...