A British doctor has died in a Syrian prison after more than a year of torture and detention without charge.
The deadly attacks on Yemen’s defence ministry that killed 52 people in early December have renewed speculation about the threat posed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The Syrian National Coalition have confirmed that they will be attending January’s peace talks in Geneva, but they are not optimistic about the outcome unless Assad agrees to concede power.
The human cost of Syria’s 33 months of bloody civil war is estimated to have reached 126,000, with vicious abuses being perpetrated by both sides.
At least 22 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché Ebrahim Ansari, are reported to have been killed in two blasts that targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut.