Turkey's powerful populist leader Recep Tayip Erdogan shows no signs of flinching against masses of angry protesters who brand him a dictator, dismissing them as "a handful of vandals". Thousands have rallied, complaining that he is pushing conservative, Islamist-flavoured...

 Turkey's deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government's violent crackdown on an environmental protest , a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the country's major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of  riot police...

 Syrian regime government received  25 medicinal shipment worth $ 1.2 million by  the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).   The U.N. commission said that the medicinal shipment worth $ 1.2 million in order to support emergency medical...

(Reuters) - In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards. Endlessly shared on...