The bread queue can be a dangerous and dishonest place in  Egypt . People have killed over state-subsidized loaves. Corruption blights much of the trade. The problems, says the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, are why it has introduced a new way to deliver bread - safely and cleanly -...

Among the consequences facing U.S. President  Barack Obama  if he decides against arming Syria's rebels is that Arab and European states may step in more aggressively, perhaps further fracturing rebel forces. Having watched government forces seize the strategic town of Qusair...

More must be done to stop the "outrageous" loss of life in Syria, William Hague has said after talks with his US counterpart in Washington. Diplomatic efforts would be intensified amid reports that the Syrian government was planning "new assaults" on rebel groups, the UK Foreign Secretary...

 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from  Syria 's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and  Israel  in the disputed  Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable  U.N.  peacekeeping force there by more...