" Officials from organizations with health-related missions in Syria called Friday for the protection of medical facilities and personnel there. A joint statement by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.N.'s humanitarian operations “strongly condemned”...

  An appeals court in Egypt on Saturday ordered 14 women jailed after a protest to be freed, reducing 11-year prison terms to a one-year suspended sentence.   The women's supporters in the Alexandria courtroom chanted "God is great" as the judge...

Syrian Opposition activists have sparkled major outrage via social media after circulating photos for an old man has been murdered by Iraqi militants in the town of al-Nabk, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus. Munir Abdul al-Hai (pictured), a man in his sixties has...

A group of nuns from the historic Christian town of Maalula in Syria denied they were kidnapped by rebels, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera news channel on Friday. The brief video shows the women, apparently in good health and comfortable, dressed in black religious garb in a room....