The United Nations has accused both sides to the Syria conflict of grave violations against children. Children caught in the Syrian war are being recruited as child soldiers, used as human shields, and tortured, according to a new UN report. The report, released on...

A truce signed Tuesday between the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Suqour al-Sham – one of the brigades constituting the Islamic Front, key rebel group, to not attack each other.   ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and  Suqour Sham Leader, Abu...

Libya has completely destroyed the chemical arsenal it inherited from Moamer Kadhafi, 10 years after the now slain dictator signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz announced Tuesday. The completion of the disarmament process, begun under the ousted...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has hit out the "brutality" of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its sustained barrel bomb campaign. In a written statement released on Tuesday, Kerry said use of the bombs was reminding the world of the Assad regime's "true colours."...