Detectives are hunting a man in the North who seriously assaulted a young woman.

MASKED gunmen dragged Syria’s best-known political cartoonist from his car, beat him severely and broke both his hands as a warning to stop drawing just days after he compared Syria’s president to Muammar Gaddafi, a relative and activists said.

One of the world's most-wanted terrorists has been killed in a car bomb explosion in the Syrian capital Damascus.