Egyptian court bans all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and seizes assets of Morsi's "backers". An Egyptian court has banned all the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered the assets of the backers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi seized, state television has announced....

  Syria was there in many artistic works have been presented in "Biennale” festival taking place in Istanbul in Turkey. The Turkish artist "Antonio Kosantino” participated in two pictures, one of them was a scene from Banias, the Syrian costal city, while the...

Islamist rebels from the Russian Caucasus who are fighting alongside Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria could pose a serious security threat to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, analysts say. Russia has pulled out all the stops to host the Olympic Games, its first major international sports...

A World Bank report has said spillover from the Syrian war has cost Lebanon billions of dollars, deeply damaged its economy and harshly strained social services such as health and education. The new report, published on the website of Lebanese daily al-Safir on Thursday,...