A chemical attack that killed 58 civilians, including 11 children,  in a northwestern town Tuesday "calls the political process into question", the opposition's chief negotiator at peace talks told AFP. "If the United Nations cannot deter the regime from carrying out such crimes,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Assef Shawkat, once Syria's most powerful man and ruling family's son-in-law, remained hostage to the Assad family’s decision till his death in Damascus bomb attack on July 18, 2012. Shawkat is one of the few figures in Syrian contemporary history whose life as an...

(The Guardian)- The graves of the children are easy to discern, little bumps on the ground squeezed in along the edges of the cemetery. A rectangle of four small concrete blocks is enough to encompass one child’s entire body. No names are carved in marble, just overgrown, withered...

The president of the United States holds a trademark in Jordan for a Donald Trump casino, despite the fact that gambling is illegal in the kingdom. It is one of four he received before he ran for office, and suggests that the former casino executive may have had wider hopes for businesses across...