By Louisa Loveluck and Ben Farmer (The Daily Telegraph)- Senior British politicians are leading calls for the RAF to drop aid to a besieged Syrian town where thousands of civilians are starving to death....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aisha al-Hajiri, or Om Omar, a widow in her fifties from Arsal, has devoted her life after her husband’s death to help the disabled, although she is not that affluent, but she has turned her 2-room-house into a center to look after disabled and...

Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate stormed a radio station and abducted two prominent media activists from a rebel-held northwestern town today, an opposition official told AFP. "Al-Nusra Front kidnapped at 0655 (local time) activists Hadi al-Abdallah and Raed Fares in the offices of Fresh...

New friction between Saudi Arabia and Iran sparked by the execution of a Shia cleric is not expected to rise to a level of military conflict, according to close observers.   The kingdom’s decision to execute Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was denounced in Iran as protesters raided the Saudi embassy...