Syrian government troops surrounded Hama prison in the west of the country on Monday and fired tear gas after inmates revolted, seizing several guards, a monitoring group reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said inmates were protesting against the planned transfer of a number of...

Egyptian police on Sunday raided the press syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters said in what the syndicate called an unprecedented crackdown. The interior ministry denied officers had stormed the press labor union...

Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption. The protesters, who had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 people have been killed in Homs province during two months of fragile ceasefire deal that was engineered by U.S. and Russia, local monitor said. Activists of Talbiseh Mubasher, local monitoring group, said 100 people were also wounded in the northern countryside of...