Shariah Commission in Aleppo pledged to secure the defection of soldiers and employees who still with the regime Army, during the period of one month beginning on Friday. The commission said in a statement: "We call upon all citizens, brothers and parents, to this initiative to...

  The Syrian government has interrogated students and carried out violent assaults on their protests and military attacks on schools, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.Both government forces and opposition armed groups have used schools as military bases,...

  Inside a furniture-free caravan in the Jordanian desert, sixteen women and girls and a plump boy wedge themselves in a circle around a 15 -year-old girl and a woman doing her hair. The hairdresser combs through one-inch sections, spraying on a fixative before twisting...

The capture of Qusair by Syrian troops spearheaded by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite Islamist militia, risks turning the war in  Syria  into a wider sectarian battle between Sunni and Shi'ite forces that will sweep through the country's neighbors. The fall of the town after...