The trial of five peaceful activists in Syria on “terrorism” charges tomorrow is further evidence of the increasing and systematic repression against anyone speaking out against human rights violations in the country, Amnesty International said. Mazen Darwish, Hussein Gharir, Hani...

  Twenty militants of Hezbollah, Iran proxy, were killed in an army ambush free Sayyida Zeinab south of Damascus, according SANA al-Thawra. Two day ago, A military commander of Hezbollah was killed in fighting near the Syrian capital and has been buried in his southern Lebanese...

The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has put in place an entry quota of 3,000 refugees a day to cope with an influx of Kurds fleeing the civil war in  Syria , aid agencies said on Tuesday. About 30,000 refugees, believed to be mainly Syrian Kurds, have poured into  Iraq...

    A court in Pakistan charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army. The indictment of the army chief who seized power in a 1999...