The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant released a grisly video of two jihadists in Aleppo holding up the head of a man (Pictured L) they said was an Iraqi Shiite who had been fighting for the regime. The British-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory said the decapitated...

Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday. Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking...

Turkey to be the fifth fastest emerging country amongst top twenty world economies at the end of 2013, Moody's recently published report says. Turkey will be the fifth fastest emerging country amongst top twenty world economies at the end of 2013, Moody's recently...

  The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule.   Kurdish militia, dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD),...