Local human rights organizations are demanding that government agencies track down the Saudi biological fathers of children born to Syrian women who have since become refugees in Jordan and Turkey in the wake of the Syrian civil war. These citizens-turned-refugees have no documents to...

Security sources told Al Arabiya News late Monday that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a site belonging to the Shiite Lebanese movement Hezbollah near the Lebanon-Syrian borders. The airstrikes killed a number of Hezbollah members, the sources said.  Meanwhile, Al Arabiya’s...

Air raids on rebel-held towns across  Syria  killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to indiscriminate shelling and aerial attacks. Syria's almost three-year-old conflict has raged on...

Egypt's government resigned on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. After the July overthrow of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and subsequent crackdown...