Turkish riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of demonstrators who were protesting Thursday over the building of a controversial wall on the border with Syria, witnesses said.   Police took action to disperse a large crowd of people who...

Albania confirmed on Thursday that the United States has demanded to dismantle Syria’s chemical arsenal on its soil, amid protests in the capital rejecting any plans of such. “We were contacted by the United States, but no decision has been made yet,” Agence France-Presse quoted...

  Troops backed by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters and other pro-regime militiamen on Thursday retook Sbeineh, a major rebel enclave south of Damascus, a monitoring group and state television said.   "Sbeineh was one of the most important...

  Haytham Manna, the head of overseas department in the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), denied meeting Rifaat al-Assad in Geneva on Wednesday. He has expressed his surprise of that rumors, as he is a human right activist, and a member of Arab...