Syrian Opposition activists have sparkled major outrage via social media after circulating photos for an old man has been murdered by Iraqi militants in the town of al-Nabk, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus. Munir Abdul al-Hai (pictured), a man in his sixties has...

A group of nuns from the historic Christian town of Maalula in Syria denied they were kidnapped by rebels, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera news channel on Friday. The brief video shows the women, apparently in good health and comfortable, dressed in black religious garb in a room....

  Syrian opposition activists on Thursday accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of again using poison gas in rebel-held areas, saying victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth. The activists told Reuters that two shells loaded with...

  A car bomb detonated Friday morning in the Kurdish-populated northern Syrian town of Qamishli. The suicide bombing left at least 6 people dead and 10 others injured, Al-Mayadeen network reported. Meanwhile, Russia Today said that the car bomb hit near a...