(Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition activists said the circumstances behind the return of the famed torture victim Mazen Al-Hamada from  Netherlands  to Damascus is complicated due to the financial and psychological pressures and the forgiveness vows by the Syrian regime....

Amid intensifying fighting in recent weeks in Idlib and Aleppo, in which two Syrian journalists were killed and eight were injured, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices concern about the risks for reporters covering military operations in Syria and calls for every effort to be made to...

An Algerian prosecutor is seeking a year's prison sentence for Fodil Boumala, a leading figure in the country's protest movement, an advocacy group said Monday. Boumala, a former state TV journalist who in 2011 co-founded an opposition group, was arrested in September and detained pending...

Saudi Arabia has issued more than 400,000 tourist visas since it opened its borders to foreign vacationers in late September, the country’s top tourism official said on Monday. That number, which doesn’t include millions of religious pilgrims, drives home the challenges the conservative...