French authorities opened a preliminary probe Monday into the assets of Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Activist groups allege the elder Assad acquired vast wealth in France through corruption and embezzlement ....
Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...
Assad's security forces arrested ten days ago the young artist, Aliaa Anwar Said, 20-year-old, near the Lebanese borders, according to cyber activists . No news from the 'daughter of Slamiyeh city, Hama province who supposed to be on the stage of the Higher...
It was Sept. 4, and the war drums were sounding in Syria. The United States appeared to be on the verge of launching strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Family members of the country's economic and political elite fled to Beirut, looking to avoid the cruise missiles....
