Abu Hamada, a 62-year-old civil engineer from the outskirts of Damascus, has not built much for several years, and yet by his own calculations he has earned about £1,500,000 in the past six months. That is because since moving to Egypt after the Syrian civil war started, this...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States was seeking to defuse tensions over proposed U.N. resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during talks in Europe next week. Kerry will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in...

( Newsweek )- The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the executive summary of a long-awaited report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” or what President Barack Obama has referred to as...

Around 150 fighters belonging to the Free Syrian Army have been detained by the al-Nusra Front in Syria’s Idlib province, The Anadolu Agency has learnt. The AA was recently given access to prisoners in al-Nusra's custody. Al-Nusra, which controls most of Idlib...