(AFP)- Romanian coastguard have intercepted a boat carrying 70 mainly Syrian and Iraqi migrants in the Black Sea, the interior ministry announced on Saturday. Seven children, including a five-month-old baby, and twenty women were among those on board the fishing boat which came from Turkey....

(Reuters) - Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to take a "historic" decision to lay down their arms, according to a statement on Saturday, a crucial step in Turkey's drive to end a 30-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels. Turkey's president, Tayyip...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front rebel group declared general mobilization, in statement issued on Saturday, as Syrian regime troops backed by allied Iranian and Lebanese militias have been making advances in the Syrian south, tasking control of key towns....

By Azmi Bishara (al-Araby al-Jadeed)- The Houthi movement has followed a model of power politics seen in revolutions from the past, in which rebel forces master the game of alliances, placating some opponents and using force against others who are harder...