Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith.   The bloodshed came as a flood of...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that the Syria issue was seriously affecting neighbouring Lebanon. In a report to the Security Council, he stated that 800,000 refugees have fled to Lebanon due to the ongoing war in Syria and this has...

Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported...

Southern districts that have been under rebel control for more than a year are falling one by one, Damascus-based activist Rami al-Sayyed said to Reuters, referring to gains by Assad's forces around the capital. Zaman Alwasl sources assured that mass mobilization is taking...