Six Syrian government security personnel were killed by Druze gunmen in the south of the country, a monitor said on Saturday, after two car bomb blasts killed 26 people, including veteran anti-government cleric, overnight provoking angry protests. The two blasts, which occurred late on...

Mohammed Ali Zonoobi bends his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. "Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?" pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee. "Will you break away from Islam?" "Yes," Zonoobi fervently replies. Spreading his...

Two explosions rocked the predominantly-Druze city of Swaida in southern Syria on Friday, leaving at least 26 people killed, activists and state-run TV reported. The first blast took place at the Daher al-Jabal area in Swiada, in which four people were killed and 11 others wounded, said...

The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his hometown Kobane on Friday to bury his family, an AFP photographer reported. Abdullah Kurdi arrived at the Turkish border town of Suruc with the...