The United Nations’ latest call for peace between the Syrian army and rebel fighters did not help much, as fresh clashes once again broke out across the country on Thursday.

The Syrian army launched more assaults in other parts of the country, local activists told media on Wednesday.

Israel passed a law which bans underweight models from advertisements and runways.

Rebel groups in Syria are committing grave human rights abuses, including torture, forced abductions, according to a report.

Clashes erupted between the Syrian army and rebels on Monday in Damascus—the heaviest fighting to take place in the country’s capital since the uprising began a year ago.

An American teacher was shot and killed by gunmen on motorcycles in the southwestern Yemen city of Taiz, according to media reports.

Explosions rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus as well as Aleppo, the country’s economic capital and largest city, over the weekend,.

It has been one year since the first mass protest in Syria, but there is little to celebrate with the country still in the grips of a violent deadlock.

Just a few days after making calls for military intervention in Syria, two prominent members of the opposition Syrian National Council left the group’s ranks on Wednesday.

The Syrian army is using internationally banned landmines, placing them on the borders of Lebanon and Turkey, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Citing local witnesses and mine removal teams, the New York-based rights group said that there have been several …