Syria civil war: Bewildered, elated prisoners pour out as President Assad's jails flung openSyrian prisoners, held in notorious detention centers for years under Bashar al-Assad's rule, were liberated following the government's col...
Syria's Baath party oversaw half a century of repressionSyria's Baath party, under the Assad dynasty, ruled with an iron fist for over five decades. Hafez al-Assad seized power in a 1970 coup, es...
Syria's Assad: The president who led a bloody crackdownSyrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly fled the country amidst a swift rebel advance into Damascus. The rebel offensive, launched ...
Bashar al-Assad: The Syrian president who led a bloody crackdownSyrian President Bashar al-Assad, once seemingly secure in power after quashing a pro-democracy revolt, now faces a renewed threat. An Isla...
Islamic State attacks Syria jail, military base in Iraq in deadly escalationThe jihadist group has yet to comment on the attacks and there is no indication that they are coordinated but, according to analysts, they ...
Step up trials of alleged Syrian war criminals, UN human rights chief saysPro-democracy protests against President Bashar al-Assad's authoritarian family rule erupted in March 2011 in southern Syria and were met b...
Al-Qaida jihadi regrets divorcing wife over phoneA battle-hardened mujhaideen, Samiun Rahman was arrested by Delhi police on September 16 from Vikas Marg in east Delhi while trying to esta...
No sign of 39 missing Indians in Iraq even as search goes onSushma Swaraj met the relatives of the workers, mostly from Punjab, last week and said that govt had received information that the workers ...
Two men jailed for distributing ISIS leaflets on London streetsIbrahim Anderson, 38, was sentenced to three years and Shah Jahan Khan, 63, given two years jail term for inviting support for a banned org...
Four Indians linked to IS in Syrian jail: Deputy PM Waled Al-MoualemSyrian Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Waled Al-Moualem on Wednesday revealed that Damascus has captured four Indians linked to IS, currentl...
ISIS draws up hit-list of British MPs: ReportBritain's MPs have been told to increase security in their homes and constituencies amid fears they and their staff could be singled out fo...
Yasin Bhatkal’s talk of help from ‘Damascus’ has agencies worriedThe five-minute-long chat has sent authorities into a tizzy, leading them to scale up security arrangements at Hyderabad prison where Bhatk...
Direct cost of violence $7.16 trillion at PPP rates in 2014In Syria, the total cost of peace was a staggering 42 per cent of the country's GDP while in India, the cost is 5 per cent of our GDP.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi will link with Qaeda: RAW to PMOIndia has seen Lakhvi as a threat to itself since the November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai, but R&AW insists that he is a bigger problem for...
ISIS 'recruit' Arif Majeed says jail officer asked him to identify photosAccording to the police, Majeed and three others, all engineering students, travelled to Baghdad on May 23, last year as a part of a group ...
2 young British jihadis of South Asian-origin jailed in UKTwo young British nationals, including one of Pakistani descent, who spent eight months fighting alongside al Qaeda-linked terror group in ...
- Syrians call for protests on Facebook and Twitter
Syrians are organizing campaigns on Facebook and Twitter that call for a ``day of rage'' in Damascus this week, taking inspiration from Egy...