The British-based Human Rights Observatory has sparkled Syrian activists outrage over lack of credibility and partiality to Assad regime despite of describing it by Reuters as pro-opposition.  Ghazwan al-Hakim, prominent field doctor in rebel-held areas in eastern...

Assad cousin Col. Jihad Hamed Makhlouf   killed himself by explosives when rebels attacked his apartment   in Adra al-Ummaliya, 25 km east Damascus, cyber activists circulated. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed yesterday that  Islamist rebels...

  More than 2 million Syrians have fled their country, according to the United Nations refugee agency. With nowhere to go and often with just the clothes on their backs, many end up in refugee camps that are both overcrowded and overwhelmed. Many organizations are offering supplies,...

The United States is concerned about troubles facing Syria's Western-backed opposition but it will keep supporting Free Syrian Army leader General Salim Idris and the moderate opposition, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday. The United States and Britain suspended...