International disarmament experts arrived Tuesday in the Syrian capital to begin the daunting task of cataloguing the country's arsenal of chemical weapons ahead of its destruction. Nineteen inspectors from The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travelled...

Not every report to emerge from Syria is bad news for Bashar al-Assad. Yes, the world's jihadists may be  flying  from Accrington to Aleppo to fillet his soldiers with bullets. But it turns out Bashar has violent friends in far-off places, too. Since the conflict began in 2011,...

    French authorities opened a preliminary probe Monday into the assets of Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Activist groups allege the elder Assad acquired vast wealth in France through corruption and embezzlement ....

In a religious country such as Egypt, despite atheism being a taboo highly frowned upon, atheists say their numbers are on the rise. But with any new movement taking hold, a cultural backlash is bound to ensue .   In an attempt to understand the...