Fighting between rebel groups in the biggest insurgent stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus entered a second day Saturday, while government forces pressed an offensive against the besieged enclave, activists said. The clashes broke out in part of the densely-populated rural area east...

Hamas is to unveil a new version of its controversial founding charter which called for the destruction of Israel in a bid to ease its international isolation, party officials said. Leaders of Hamas have long spoken of the more limited aim of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza...

Turkish authorities on Saturday blocked access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, an internet monitoring group said, the latest in what government critics say is a crackdown on free speech on the internet. A block on all language editions of the Wikipedia website was detected at 8:00 a.m....

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dr. Imad Barq, the Minister of Education in the opposition's interim government, reveals in an interview with Zaman al-Wasl how the education proccess is rolling on in rebel-held areas and gives more highlights over the accreditation of certificates,...