Allegations are mounting that chemical weapons attacks in Syria last year have caused newborns to suffer from birth defects. Syrian doctors and activists have circulated a picture of a severely deformed baby girl, reportedly named Fatima Abdulghafar, who was recently born in...

Four Palestinian refugees have been detained in Sri Lanka for more than two weeks and risk being expelled back to Syria, according to a human rights group. The Palestinian League for Human Rights - Syria says the four men were stopped at Sri Lanka's international airport on...

Translation by Dani Murad With great resentment, people of Nubul and Zahra, the Shiite villages in northern Aleppo, which were rumored to be under tight siege by rebels, have expressed their anger of the relief aid sent by regime forces recently....

(Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group has wrested control of key parts of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor from other rebel groups, activists said on Sunday, worsening infighting that has handicapped the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. More than 100,000...