Voting was largely peaceful in Afghanistan's presidential election on Saturday, with only isolated attacks on polling stations as a country racked by decades of chaos embarked on its first ever democratic transfer of power. A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded two...
Syrian Revolution has lost one of its greatest mothers, who was unknown as she did not care about fame and appearing before cameras . Mariam al-Sharif, or Om Ismail, from Kafr Nabodah in Hama, was a unique icon of women, who sacrificed her time, effort and life for...
Former Lebanon warlord Samir Geagea, a staunch opponent of Syria and the Shiite movement Hezbollah, will stand for the presidency in May, his Christian Lebanese Forces party said on Friday. Geagea, 61, was the only leader from the 1975-1990 civil war ever jailed, but was...
Islamist rebels in Syria have retaken a town from President Bashar al-Assad's forces, activists said on Friday, in part of an offensive along a stretch of the main highway linking Damascus to the northern city of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels killed...
