At least 11 civilians were killed and a school day violently interrupted amid intensive Syrian regime shelling of a rebel-held enclave north of the capital Damascus Sunday, sending panicked kindergarten children scurrying for shelter, opposition activists reported. The Britain-based...

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan’s veteran leader Masoud Barzani will not extend his presidential term beyond Nov. 1, a Kurdish government official said on Saturday. His decision came just weeks after a referendum on Kurdish independence backfired and triggered a crisis...

 It all began with a fish seized by the police. Morocco is marking one year since a fisherman's gruesome death spawned a social protest movement against police abuse - an event that has drawn comparisons to the 2010 death of a Tunisian vendor that sparked the Arab Spring democracy...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a base belongs to moderate rebels in southern Daraa province, leaving one fighter dead and ten more wounded, local activists said Tuesday. The attack targeted ‘Mu'taz Bellah’ Brigade in Mzairib town in the western...