President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer arrived in Damascus Friday to seek broader humanitarian aid access to besieged areas in the strife-torn country. Maurer will discuss with Syrian officials broader access to besieged areas and visit to...

Iraqis fleeing from Falluja question whether the masked gunmen who overran their city 10 days ago are really al Qaeda-linked militants as the government says, but fear their presence will draw a ferocious response from the army regardless. At a motel in Iraq's Kurdish north, Falluja...

Several factions of the Syrian opposition, meeting together for the first time, called on Friday for a new coalition but did not reach agreement on who should attend peace talks later this month, or whether they would attend at all. With less than a fortnight to go until the first...

  Abdul Basset al-Sarout, r evolutionary i con and vocal supporter, has released  a motivational   song , urging rebels of the embattled city of Homs for more fortitude and patience to overthrow Bashar Al Assad regime. Syrian people kept in mind...