Faisal Ahmad al-Khalouf, preacher and imam of a mosque in northern Idlib province, died inside the prisons of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham after three years in detention on charges of collaborating with the Syrian regime. Sources from the town of Ma'arshamsha confirmed to Zaman...

Amira Osman, a Sudanese women's rights activist, was getting ready for bed a few minutes before midnight when about 30 policemen forced their way into her home in Khartoum last month. The men, many in plainclothes and armed with Kalashnikov rifles, pistols and batons, banged on her bathroom...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The mass protests in Kazakhstan began peacefully over the New Year's weekend, with marchers denouncing a sharp rise in fuel prices. They spread quickly from the western part of the Central Asian nation to more populous areas, eventually reaching its largest city of...

Russian warplanes targeted a poultry farm in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Monday leaving a woman and her child injured, according to the Syrian Civil Defence - better known as the White Helmets. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Kafr Takharim village as the White Helmets...