The workers were traveling in the Idlib area when gunmen blocked their path, shot at their convoy, seized them and took them to an unknown location, according to a state news agency report. "An armed terrorist group today kidnapped a number of workers in the mission of the International...

  Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan passed away under torture in Bashar al-Assad security chambers, the International Cartoonists Rights Network said .   Dr. Robert Russell, Executive Director of Cartoonists Rights Network International said in a statement ,...

  This year’s  hajj  is likely to be one of the safest in recent years. Saudi Arabia has secured the holy city of Makkah for the arrival of millions of hajjis. The equipment list is vast, the personnel well-trained, and with the installation of 1,166 CCTV cameras...

This week, a Jordanian band went on a tour that included the Golan Heights, Nazareth, Haifa, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. But the popular music group which is rated as one of the top five in the region faced a concerted social media and online attack as having participated in a...