Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday. Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking...

Turkey to be the fifth fastest emerging country amongst top twenty world economies at the end of 2013, Moody's recently published report says. Turkey will be the fifth fastest emerging country amongst top twenty world economies at the end of 2013, Moody's recently...

  The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule.   Kurdish militia, dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD),...

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured a suburb of Damascus on Wednesday, part of a broader advance that has brought him major gains south of the capital before proposed international peace talks, activists said. The fall of the rebel-held town of Hujaira, next to a...