The United Nations Security Council has unanimously backed attempts to restart talks between Morocco and the Polisario independence movement over the Western Sahara conflict and has extended its peacekeeping mission for another year. The resolution late Friday came after the U.N. mission...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime and Iran’s plans to change the demography of Homs provincehave been succeeded as the people of al-Waer neighborhood keep heading the northern Syria in weekly batches. The opposition has not yet instituted any plans to accommodate these newly displaced persons...

( Al-Monitor )- At the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, Syrian artists are using their paintbrushes to break up the monotony of the desert. They splash the container houses of Syrian refugees with flowers and trees that the desert climate does not support, with the hope of alleviating a little...

(BBC)- There's a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar's eyes as he explains what he does for a living. He used to work as a security guard in a pub but then he met a group which trades in organs. His job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money, and the influx of...