Activists are criticising the World Economic Forum for allowing a large Saudi presence in Davos this week without devoting time to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi presence "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the...

Four Kurdish militants killed in infighting erupted between YPG, the armed wing of Kurdish Democratic Union, and Asayish, it’s security wing in the town of al-Shaddadi in northeastern Hasaka province, local activists said Thursday.  Such incidents not always take a place among...

A Syrian refugee woman is in critical condition after setting herself on fire at a refugee camp near the Jordanian border due to lack of enough food.  The suicide attempt took place at Al-Rukban refugee camp near Syria’s border with Jordan as the woman helplessly watched her...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee woman set herself on fire last week in the Rukban refugee camp, protesting brutal hunger and neglect in the abandoned camp at the Jordanian border. Activists said the mother of three was already at risk of dying of hunger along with her...