(Reuters) - At least 2,100 people died in Syrian prisons last year and the bodies of many showed signs of torture, a monitoring group said on Friday, quoting the families of deceased detainees. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it believed the true figure to be...

(Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal. Earlier, police had chased a...

(Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and other Sunni Muslim militants fought during the night to capture two Shi'ite villages in the country's north but were repelled, activists on both sides of the war and a monitoring group said on Friday. The insurgents were...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two newborn babies passed away on Friday due to the snow storm sweeping Syria and to the lack of foods and medicines in rebel-held city of Douma, Syria Human Rights Committee reported. The twins Abdul Rahman and Fatema have died of bad weather condition as the...