Democratic Union Party (PYD)  declared an autonomous provincial government in the country’s northern territory on Tuesday, according to reports. The move comes ahead of the Geneva 2 peace talks, where they will not have direct representation. A municipal council will...

  A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the lawyers on the team say in a new report. Their report, based on...

A prominent doctor has been freed by assistance Douma rebels after 73 days of detention without identifying the kidnappers, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. Activists accused Key al-Qaeda group in Syria, al-Nusra Front, of kidnapping Dr. Ahmed Salim al-Boukaei and...

Al Arabiya News Channel aired a video on Monday showing detained members of al-Qaeda’s offshoot in Syria, with some telling stories that suggest links to the Syrian regime. There has been heavy fighting between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...