Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported...

Kurdish militias seized another seven villages in northeastern  Syria , activists said on Wednesday, a day after the fighters' political wing announced an interim administration that aims to carve out an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region. Kurds, often described as the world's...

Zaman Alwas has obtained exclusively the minutes of the fifth meeting of the political committee of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. The meeting which was held between 29-31 October, has discussed many events, suggestions and...

Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday. Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking...