At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's military aid to Sudan. Meanwhile the Saudi mission in Geneva was stuck dealing with a...

Four rebel groups, including al-Qaeda Syria wing, operating in the southern region have formed their own version of Fatah Army, according to video statement issued Saturday, a move may set the alarm bells of Syrian regime as the united rebel formations have inflicted humiliating defeats on...

Syria's best-known mosaic museum in the northern rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan has been seriously damaged in a regime barrel bomb attack, according to archaeological experts. The Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology said the museum "suffered serious damage caused by two...

Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. "Al-Shabab killed eight of my colleagues and took three of our cars," Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told...