In Qamishli, the de-facto capital of Syria's embattled Kurdish minority, the future looks uncertain and shoppers at the market say they have no good options left. "What scares me most is that nothing is clear. Nobody knows where this region is headed," said Saad Mohammad, a 35-year-old...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A father and hid child son were killed Thursday in Russian airstrikes on the town of Kafranbel as regime forces backed by Russia have been mobilizing troops in the southern countryside of Idlib, seeking to take the last rebel stronghold near coastal Latakia province,...

Lebanese troops and riot police deployed on Thursday to reopen a major highway north of Beirut and a bridge in the capital that anti-government protesters had blocked. Two weeks of massive demonstrations against the ruling elite largely subsided after Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned...

One protester killed. Then five. Suddenly, more than 40. As Iraq's anti-government demonstrations turned bloody, a network of rights defenders and medics began documenting deaths to fill a gag order on casualty numbers. Remarkably, the watchdog at the heart of the effort is itself a...