At least 21 insurgents and 11 members of security forces were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state Friday when militants staged a major coordinated attack on 24 police posts and an army base, the military said. The fighting - still going on in some areas - marked a major escalation in a...

 A meeting between Syrian opposition groups in Riyadh has ended in stalemate, a member said Tuesday, with the fate of President Bashar al-Assad still an obstacle in forming a unified front for peace talks. The Saudi-backed opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) began discussions...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak began among Syrian refugees in Wadi Khaled refugee camps in Lebanon, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday.   Dr. Odai Obeid, Director of the district Health Center said they identified Leishmania after checking the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Several activists launched a campaign entitled “Camps of Death” to highlight the suffering of the people of the Syrian Jazira cities in Deir Ez Zor, al-Raqqa and al-Hasakeh. Camp residents fled the regime and Russian bombing, the mandatory recruitment recently imposed by...