Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. And they are doing their best to avoid it. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura describes Syria's...

Al Qaeda's North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for Friday's rocket-propelled grenade attack on an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP as part of its "war on the Crusader interests everywhere". The attack caused no casualties or damage but forced the...

Syria's regime must do more to present its ideas about a political transition and not merely talk about principles of peacemaking, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Friday after a fifth day of peace talks. The end of a week of talks in Geneva came as Syria neared the...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bambino centre for emotionally rehabilitate children in Western Ghouta of Damascus, supports and works to bring happiness to children, despite lack of support and fund in addition to high cost of almost everything....