About six months ago Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan disappeared in Damascus and was reportedly being held incommunicado by Assad's regime. He had been drawing for the Al-Fida (or Fedaa) newspaper in the city of Hama when he was grabbed. Now. he is about to be put on trial....

  The UN refugee agency on Tuesday said it has been seeing small numbers of refugees arriving in eastern Lebanon after escaping from the embattled Syrian town of Al Qusayr, where heavy fighting flared up three weeks ago.   The refugees, mostly women and...

  “new levels of brutality” in Syria’s more than two-year-old conflict, United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they believed chemical weapons and thermobaric bombs were used in recent weeks and urged the international community to cut off supplies of weapons that could only...

   United Nations  confirmed using of chemical weapons by Assad's regime according to Reuters .  U.N  rights investigators said on Tuesday they had "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in   Syria...