A Saudi court sentenced a man to 10 years in jail and a 100,000 riyal ($26,700) fine for joining protests against the kingdom's rulers and using Twitter to urge people to do the same, state news agency SPA said on Monday. SPA quoted Justice Ministry spokesman Fahd al-Bakran as...

The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of...

The woman and her 3 children, who had been included in the Nuns swap yesterday, are the family of rebel top commander based in Qalamoun, activists said. The swap in which Assad’s regime freed 151 female detainees, has included too the family of of top commander in...

  Activists have circulated in the internet undated photo for militant posing to camera with the flag of Amal Movement, fellow- Hezbollah militia, purporting it was taken in Syria.  The photo is a new evidence for involving a new Lebanese Shiite militia in fighting...