HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested 53 former lawmakers and democracy proponents Wednesday for allegedly violating the new national security law by participating in unofficial election primaries for the territory's legislature last year. The mass arrests, including of former...

A Palestinian monitoring group reported looting acts by Syrian forces and allied militias against the property of Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus,  The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said in a report that despite the return of about 600...

Syrian activists circulated on social media news of a HIV case, a first in the rebel-held northern Aleppo countryside. Our correspondent in Aleppo said that the HIV infection was discovered by chance during the process of analyzing a sample of blood given by (H. A.) in order to donate...

Ten years ago, millions dared to dream that political change could sweep across Arab capitals, but in most places such hopes have been crushed as thousands languish in jail. From Cairo to Damascus, regimes have cracked down on the dissent which flourished in the early, heady days of the...