The global chemical arms watchdog said Friday it has chosen two U.S. and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal as part of an ambitious plan that has suffered a string of setbacks. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Finland’s...

    Gaza's Hamas authorities have blocked a U.N. refugee agency from introducing textbooks promoting human rights into local schools, saying it ignores Palestinian cultural mores and focuses too heavily on "peaceful" means of conflict resolution....

Abu Huraira is haunted by memories of shells falling from the sky, ripping to pieces people trying to bury their loved ones in a Syrian graveyard. He is unnerved by the mental images of mutilated bodies, and of bones laid bare in his rebel comrades' deep wounds. But the...

   Suqour al-Sahel brigade has joined the Islamist rebels in their war on Al Qaeda splinter, the State of Iraq and Al Sham, it said in video statement seen by Zaman Alwasl. Saeed Tarboush, leader of the rebel group that based in Syria's costal area, has addressed...