A report by the Syrian network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed that five massacres were perpetrated by the parties to the conflict in Syria in the month of October.   The report notes that the first two years of the popular uprising saw the largest portion of ethnic and...

More than 400 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence during three days of voting last month, the United Nations said Tuesday, making the parliamentary ballot the deadliest on record. The vast majority of the 435 casualties – 56 dead and 379 wounded – happened on the...

Karen Khachanov caused one of the shocks of the tennis year by overpowering Novak Djokovic 7-5 6-4 in the Paris Masters final to end the Serbian's remarkable spell of dominance in the men's game on Sunday. The 22-year-old Russian has for some time been seen as one of the rising young talents...

A Jordanian official on Saturday called on his government to reverse a decision to cancel a free trade agreement with Turkey. “The commercial sector hopes that the government would restudy the agreement carefully to serve the best of all parties,” Nael al-Kabariti, the head of the...