Syrian regime forces backed by Russia's military police have besieged Daraa al-Balad city in southern Daraa province as residents refuse to hand over their own weapons, local reporter said Saturday.   Local activists say the Russian demand is a new trick to tighten control over the...

Colonel Hassan Haidar, commander of the military police in eastern Deir Ezzor province died from COVID-19, pro-regime media accounts said Monday.   Haidar, originally from Yabroud town in Damascus suburbs, took the post in 2017 after he showed a massive allegiance to the regime and the...

Israel's growing violence, dehumanization, and aggression towards Palestinians have deflated prospects for peace in the region, but even so, there may still be cause for hope, according to renowned neuroscientist and biologist Robert Sapolsky, who has spent years studying the thorny topics of...

Alaa al-Siddiq, a prominent dissident Emirati rights activist and critic, has died in a car crash in London. Alaa was the executive director of the United Kingdom-based ALQST, a non-profit organisation that advocates for greater freedoms and human rights in the UAE and the wider Gulf region....