At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the regime’s army. The opposition...

A deadly attack was launched by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on the town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb on Friday, according to a statement from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC). In the statement, the SNC called on countries of the “free world” to...

" Officials from organizations with health-related missions in Syria called Friday for the protection of medical facilities and personnel there. A joint statement by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.N.'s humanitarian operations “strongly condemned”...

  An appeals court in Egypt on Saturday ordered 14 women jailed after a protest to be freed, reducing 11-year prison terms to a one-year suspended sentence.   The women's supporters in the Alexandria courtroom chanted "God is great" as the judge...