The body of a British doctor who died earlier this week in a Syrian prison, only days before he was expected to be freed after 13 months of detention, has arrived in Beirut en route to the United Kingdom. A Red Cross ambulance carried the coffin of Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old...

A total of 126 journalists and other media workers around the world have died on the job this year, with  Syria  the most dangerous place to work for the second year in a row, the International News Safety Institute said on Friday. That was 21 fewer than last year, but...

Two rebel commanders have been missed in Aleppo countryside on Wednesday, local sources in the city of Atareb told Zaman Alwasl. Nezam Barakat, leader of Atareb Martyrs brigade, an Islamic Front unit,  and Musab Mansour leader of Ahrar Atareb battalion.  ...

Syrian Rebels have captured Kindi Hospital, converted into a regime military headquarters barracks, on Friday in Aleppo after a siege since April and months of attacks, according to the Syrian Local Coordination Committees. The Islamic Front unit Liwa al-Tawhid reported the...