Witnesses say Bahrain has arrested four American journalists covering the anniversary of its 2011 uprising amid a long crackdown on dissent in the tiny island nation, witnesses said Monday. Bahrain said it detained the four for entering the country without obtaining a media visa and for...

Libya's Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a United Nations-backed plan aimed at ending the conflict in the North African state. One of the council's members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a televised statement that the list of...

Syrian opposition forces on Sunday repelled an attack by the YPG -- the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the terrorist PKK group’s Syrian affiliate -- in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. YPG units attacked parts of western Aleppo at dawn following fierce Russian aerial...

(The Guardian)- Vladimir Putin could end Syria’s civil war with one phonecall, Britain’s foreign secretary has said. Calling on the Russians to end airstrikes on moderate Syrian opposition fighters, Philip Hammond said: “There is one man on this planet who can end the civil war in Syria...