Video — too graphic to be posted — testifies to the  horrific deaths of children  in a bombing by Syrian forces of a school in Muzayrib in Daraa Province. Other footage illustrates the brutality of the attack. ( EA world view)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Tunisia on Tuesday to praise democratic progress in the country where the "Arab Spring" began and discuss the threat of Islamist militants there. After a crisis last year brought on by the killing of two opposition...

Syrian government forces seized a village inhabited by President Bashar al-Assad's minority community from Islamist fighters in a central province on Tuesday, state media said. Insurgents including fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and other Islamist groups had taken...

Gun battles erupted between Thai police and anti-government protesters in Bangkok on Tuesday and four people were killed and dozens wounded as authorities made their most determined effort yet to clear demonstrators from the streets. In a day of tangled developments in Thailand's...