Tunisia is gearing up for snap elections as early as September following the death of president Beji Caid Essebsi, amid uncertainty over who could step forward to run the North African country. Essebsi, the country's first head of state elected in nationwide polls, died Thursday at the age...

 More than 400,000 people have been displaced in northwestern Syria over the past three months, the UN said Friday, as the government presses an intensified bombardment of the rebel-held region. “More than 400,000 people have been displaced since the end of April,” said David...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime military uncovered Thursday a mass grave containing the bodies of 13 soldiers in southern Daraa province. The corpses inside the mass grave were believed to be soldiers served in the Brigade 61 near the town of Nawa. Local activists said...

Somewhere on its journey from the waters off Iran, around Africa's southern tip and into the Mediterranean, the Grace 1 oil tanker lost the flag under which it sailed and ceased to be registered to Panama. Iran later claimed it as its own. The ship carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian...