The leader of southern Yemeni separatists has arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at ending a standoff in Aden port between the separatists and Yemen's Saudi-backed government, who had been nominal allies under the Arab coalition. Saudi Arabia, the coalition leader, called for a summit...

Syrian opposition activists say airstrikes have hit a hospital in a rebel-held northwestern village, knocking it out of service. There was no immediate word on casualties. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Thiqa news agency, an activist collective, said the...

After Egypt's president appointed top judges for the first time in the country's modern history, criticism of the judiciary's lack of independence is rampant. Last month, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi installed the heads of the Supreme Constitutional Court, the Court of Cassation and the...

(SNHR)- In its report released today to mark the sixth anniversary of the chemical attack on the two Ghoutas, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) states that the Syrian regime, by its repeated use of chemical weapons, is encouraging other regimes in the world to use chemical weapons of...