Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in  Egypt , in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it "the biggest case of conspiracy in the...

The death toll of al-Yadouda car explosion in Daraa Friday rose to 47 people, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Activists have accused regime forces of carrying out the attack near a mosque in al-Yadouda town, the number of martyrs is likely to rise...

Syria's government and opposition still do not honor basic tenets of international humanitarian law despite the evacuation of besieged Syrians from the Old City of Homs, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Saturday. ICRC President Peter Maurer said the...

More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria's uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the period since the "Geneva 2" peace talks for  Syria  began last...