Resin trees in supposedly protected forest areas are being felled at an “alarming” rate, a leading Cambodian activist has said, alleging that a U.S.-run protection program has failed to prevent such logging. Ouch Leng, the chairman of Cambodia Human Rights Task Forces, won this year’s...

A phantom account scandal at Wells Fargo & Co has put the U.S. bank's disclosure policies under a harsh spotlight. Despite press reports that a federal regulator and the Los Angeles prosecutor were investigating sales practices at retail branches of the San Francisco-based lender, the...

 Food aid for desperate civilians in eastern Aleppo remained stuck on the Syrian border Friday, the fourth morning of a fragile internationally-brokered truce in the war-ravaged country. An AFP correspondent said no movement could be seen on the rubble-strewn Castello Road, the main route...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Weeks before the eruption of the Syrian revolution the regime’s agents in Lebanon kidnapped four brothers and handed them to Syrian intelligence. Al-Jasim four brothers, Jasim, Shbib, Ali and Haidar, who came from Jarablus northern of Syrian to...