Abu Dhabi Police are warning residents against an international criminal gang luring male victims using explicit videos and then blackmailing them. According to officials, the gang would draw men into participating in online sex chats and then record the encounters, using the footage to...

Maher al-Assad, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brother, is being accused of involvement in Syria’s recent chemical weapons attack, the Guardian reported on Saturday. Not seen for a year, Maher has remained in the shadows commanding Syria’s most formidable military...

The footage shows some of the casualties of the chemical attack that has targeted the outskirts of Damascus. Throughout the footage, primitive ways of treating the casualties (e.g. water spraying) and symptoms of chemical exposure (e.g. muscle spasms and shortness of breath) can be...