Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in  Egypt , in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it "the biggest case of conspiracy in the...

  18 fighters from Liwaa Al Tawhid have been killed by the State of Iraq and al-Sham's silencer guns in their sleep on Sunday in Aleppo, pro-ISIS social media pages said.  "Iraqi Sahwat war experience came to Syria," ISIS said in statement posted by ‘The...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "great shock" on Tuesday over reports of a massacre in the Syrian village of Maan. A statement released by Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said the UN leader was disturbed by reports of killings in Maan on February 9. "Dozens of...

  Syrian authorities have detained 336 men who left Homs and are still questioning most of them without direct supervision by any neutral third party, the  United Nations  said on Tuesday. The men, deemed to be of fighting age by the Syrian authorities, were among...