French Defense Minister Florence Parly took aim Saturday at "gradual US disengagement" in the Middle East and said its failure to respond to provocations blamed on Iran set off a dangerous chain of events. Since May, tensions in the Gulf have escalated alarmingly with attacks against...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a legal report coincides with the UN’s annual Universal Children’s Day that at least 29,017 children have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the popular uprising in March 2011.     The report documents the...

German police on Tuesday arrested a 37-year old Syrian man suspected of exchanging bomb building material through an Islamist messenger group with the aim of planning an attack, police and prosecutors said. Police special forces searched the apartment of the suspect in Berlin who had...

Hong Kong police laid siege to a university on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with petrol bombs and other homemade weapons from fleeing amid fears of a bloody crackdown. Dozens, choking on the tear gas, tried to leave the Polytechnic...