Lebanon has charged a dozen people including a prominent Alawite leader with belonging to an "armed terrorist organization", judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a drive to control sectarian violence fuelled by the war in Syria . Around 30 people have been killed in...
A Turkish court on Friday ruled that a blanket ban of social-media website YouTube violated human rights and ordered most of the restrictions be lifted, citing a top court ruling this week that scrapped a similar ban on microblogging site Twitter. The state telecoms authority on...
European Union foreign ministers have gathered in Athens for the second day of an informal meeting where attention has focused on the crisis in Ukraine and the civil war in Syria. Ministers from EU candidate countries were also joining Saturday's talks. The situation in Ukraine...
The head of the mission for destroying Syria's chemical weapons has told the United Nations Security Council that Syria can still meet the April 27 deadline to remove all chemical agents out of the country that are due to be destroyed by June 30, UN diplomats said. Syria has...
