(BBC)- Nearly 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons. Amnesty says its document includes interviews with 65 "torture survivors", who have described appalling abuse in jails and detention centres....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel shelling in Syria's battered northern city of Aleppo killed 12 people including a child Wednesday, state media said. State television announced "12 martyrs including a child and several wounded after terrorists shelled the Salaheddin" district in the city's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people have been killed and 30 more have been wounded in vacuum missile attack targeted northern Idlib city, local activists said on Wednesday. The deadly missile attack rocked the city's center reducing whole blocks to rubble. Regime air force backed by Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Officials of regime have threatened Tuesday that they would intensify attacks on al-Waer neighbourhood in central Homs city if the fighters did not leave the neighbourhood. Zaman Al Wasl correspondent in Homs mentioned that regime’s forces on barriers have repeated what...