Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...

At least nine people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday, activists said. Raqqa in northeastern  Syria  has been under the control of insurgents fighting to oust President Bashar...

  Leader of al-Islam Army, Zahran Alloush, denied today in his Twitter account any relationship with Basher al-Assad-baked businessman Mohamed Hamsho or receiving any funds from the controversial man.  Hours ago 43 brigade and battalion based announced...

Syria's government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes President Bashar Assad, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has said. He spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a day after the Security Council approved a resolution that obliges Syria's...