Sudan's cabinet Tuesday scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights during the 30-year tenure of deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir, state media reported. Thousands of women were flogged, fined and even jailed during Bashir's ironfisted rule under the archaic...

Israel was set to expel the country director of Human Rights Watch on Monday after a lengthy court battle over claims he supports a boycott of the Jewish state. US citizen Omar Shakir, the New York-based rights group's director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, denies the claims...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 civilians were killed 20 others wounded in a car bomb attack in the northern Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, local activists said Saturday.  .The attack is the second in a month. On November 2, 13 people were killed by a car bomb in Tal Abyad...

Fatma, a 11-year-old displaced girl hopes she can get treatment like every burned child in the war-torn country. Fatma’s doctor Yusuf Sheikhouni says she needs facelifts for hands, eyes and ears as well as she needs a silicon mask and an artificial hair transplant.  ...