Syrian activists say hundreds of people have been killed in airstrikes targeting rebel-held areas over the past few days. The Syrian government forces continues to use barrel bombs - explosives packed inside drums and thrown from helicopters - which have been condemned as...

    A surface-to-surface rocket by Bashar al-Assad‘s forces hit Al-Takaya Street in the city of Deir al-Zor on Friday, leaving one man killed and many others injured, Syrian Observatory for human Rights  said.  The observatory reported that...

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich announced plans for early elections on Friday in a series of concessions to his pro-European opponents, but it was unclear whether they would accept an EU-mediated deal to end violence that has left dozens dead. Russian-backed Yanukovich, under...

Voices of  construction  workers and the noise from their  tools  used to ring out in Gaza's streets. Now hulks of unfinished buildings stand in eerie silence, and the idle builders are left to worry how to make ends meet. An Egyptian-Israeli blockade on the...