Syrian security forces detained another member of the regime-tolerated opposition on Saturday, his party said, accusing the authorities of trying to "terrorise" the group into silence. "This morning (Saturday), Monzer Khaddam, a member of the National Coordination Body's executive...

    The commander of Syria's main Western-backed rebel group has urged all opposition fighters to join ranks in the struggle against President Bashar Assad's forces, pledging to do everything he can to stave off rebel infighting. In remarks broadcast Friday...

Syrian government forces are waging a systematic campaign of enforced disappearances to terrorise the population, amounting to a crime against humanity, a UN-mandated probe said Thursday. "Enforced disappearances are perpetrated as part of a widespread campaign of terror against the...

British prisoner Dr Abbas Khan found dead in Syrian jail days before he was due to be handed over to MP George Galloway In a scandal that will inevitably embrace the Syrian and the British governments, a British prisoner in the hands of the Syrian state security police has been...