Syrian rebels have circulated footage on the social media showing them playing football in their leisure time. Rebel  FaceBook page quoted the  fighters saying, ''we have to approve that life will go on as well as we surpass pain and sadness;...

Assad's army has sealed the few remaining smuggling routes into the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus, activists and aid workers said on Wednesday, tightening a chokehold on rebel-held areas near the capital. Activists inside the Eastern Ghouta region, a semicircle of rural towns...

At least eight Tunisian policemen and two Islamist militants were killed on Wednesday when they clashed during a raid by security forces in Sidi Bouzid in the south of the country, security sources and state television said. Tunisian authorities say Ansar al-Sharia, one of the...

Allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on millions of French citizens are set to overshadow vital talks on the future of Syria. Top-ranking politicians from both sides of the Atlantic will come face to face on Tuesday just one day after a report in  Le Monde...