At least 13 people were injured in a car-bomb blast on Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Jarabulus, according to local sources.  A number of women and children were among those injured in the attack, the sources said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to...

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and that his mother-in-law had begun a hunger strike in jail. AlWadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for...

 After the UN gave Russia coordinates of hospitals in East Ghouta, near Syria’s capital Damascus, Russian forces have reportedly attacked one of the facilities. Jan Egeland, the head of the UN’s humanitarian operations for Syria, tweeted on Thursday that the coordinates...

 A gendarme who voluntarily took the place of a hostage during a deadly supermarket siege in southwestern France on Friday has died, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said. Arnaud Beltrame, who once served in Iraq, had been raced to hospital fighting for his life after the siege in...