(Reuters) - Syria's neighbors Lebanon, Turkey , Jordan and Iraq are cutting back sharply on the number of Syrians they allow onto their soil as they can no longer cope with the influx of refugees, two prominent humanitarian agencies said on Thursday. The number of refugees...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree on Wednesday allowing him to repatriate foreign prisoners in Egypt, Reuters said. The move that could enable the release of an Al Jazeera journalist now serving a...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cars carrying food and aid supplies entered a southern Damascus neighborhood on Wednesday thanks to a local ceasefire agreement between pro-government officials and insurgents, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Such truces have been...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran denied on Wednesday a monitoring group's report that an Iranian nuclear scientist had been killed in Syria last week, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday five nuclear...