“Allah bless Erdogan, Allah bless the governor, Allah bless Turkey.” Praise for Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is in short supply  amid a wave of anti-government protests  that have rocked the country...

Islamist rebels, who control Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, have detained three female activists, who were freed from the Syrian regime’s prisons via Maloula Nuns' deal, in which 153 female prisoner were freed. Two of them were released, while Yasmin al-Binshi kept...

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned the Syrian regime’s alleged use of poison gas in central Hama, calling for “stern” action by the international community against Damascus. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the “dangerous information on...

Young Somali refugees living in the world's largest refugee camp, in Kenya, have sent letters of encouragement to Syrian refugee children who have also had to flee their homeland. The young Somali students reside in the Dadaab refugee camp, in north-eastern Kenya. It is...