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(Reuters) - Local ceasefires in Syria may be the best way to ease the suffering of civilians in the absence of a political solution to the three-and-a-half year conflict, researchers from the London School of Economics said on Monday. In a report that looked at more than 35...

By Zeina Al Chofi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed SWEIDA (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Tension prevailed in Druze-dominated province of Sweida when senior officer in regime security threatened a prominent cleric of reprisal. In details, the issue started when a young man...

(Reuters) - Some Egyptian human rights groups shredded documents on Sunday and instructed their staff to stay home as a government deadline approached for them to register under a Hosni Mubarak-era law they say seeks to eliminate them. Egypt's government says groups doing...