The 193-member U.N. General Assembly elected Jordan to the U.N. Security Council on Friday to replace Saudi Arabia, which rejected its two-year term in protest at the council's failure to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues. Saudi Arabia was elected in October to...

  Syrian opposition activists on Thursday accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of again using poison gas in rebel-held areas, saying victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth. The activists told Reuters that two shells loaded with...

Germany says it will take in a further 5,000 refugees from Syria, doubling its current offer of shelter for people fleeing the Arab nation's civil war. The decision was announced Friday at a meeting of officials from Germany's 16 states, which share responsibility for housing...

The checkpoints of Shi’ite Militias have become remarkably widespread in regime-held areas of Aleppo amid decreasing for presence of Assad's forces, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. They wear black costumes with green and red bands, inscribed with sectarian slogans, their...