A Turkish dry cargo ship was shelled from the Libyan coast as it approached the port of Tobruk and then attacked from the air as it tried to leave the area on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The third officer on the Cook Islands-chartered Tuna-1 vessel died and other...

The Assad regime has placed its intelligence chief under house arrest after suspecting he was plotting a coup, in a sign that battlefield losses are setting off increasing paranoia in Damascus . Ali Mamlouk, the head of the country's National Security Bureau, and one of...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has designated his crown prince to attend a Gulf Arab summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, the state news agency, SPA, reported on Sunday. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef would head the delegation...

(Reporting by Mamoon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  People in the Wa'er neighborhood in Homs city demanded an urgent help to tackle the hygiene and insect problem they started to suffer from. Wa'er neighborhood has been under siege for more than a year. Moreover, their suffer...