A top United Nations official urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children, some of whom are locked up in police cells for weeks, and to develop child protection services instead. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, said he...

 A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War One, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed - and some in the region see opportunity in the chaos. These include Israelis or Kurds who seek to...

Libya's U.N.-established presidency council has effectively given the go-ahead for 18 government ministers to start work, even though they have not received backing from the parliament based in the country's east. Monday's development is an effort to bypass a political deadlock that continues...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl the details of the assault on the Syrian Judge Sydra Hanfi by cousin of regime  minister of justice pointing out it exceeded the violations happeneing in the right of judiciary and judges to draw a...