Another sit-in by Syrian activists within two days in Istanbul, this time it took place in front of Russia's consulate,  in solidarity with Ghouta's   victims who passed away by Assad's chemical attacks with death tool reached 1500 people, mostly women and children....

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday he intends to conduct a "thorough, impartial and prompt investigation" into the latest alleged chemical weapons attack in  Syria , an issue his top disarmament official will raise in Damascus shortly. A United Nations statement...

 One million Syrian children have now been registered as refugees, forced from their homeland by a war that is well into its third year, the United Nations announced on Friday. "What is at stake is nothing less than the survival and wellbeing of a generation of innocents," António...

A Cairo criminal court ordered Egypt’s long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak freed from prison on bail yesterday, starkly illustrating the Egyptian military junta’s counterrevolutionary agenda. While the court said it would hold Mubarak for 48 hours to let the prosecution appeal the verdict,...