Syria's exiled opposition, in written statement, has declined invitations from Russia and Egypt to attend peace talks with representatives of Bashar al-Assad's regime. According to AFP, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said this week...

At least 30 people have died from H1N1 – so-called “swine flu” – in Turkey since 2014, Turkey’s highest Health Ministry official said on Monday. “We have collected a total of 4,300 samples from patients, out of which 366 were cases of H1N1, known as the swine flu,”...

(Reuters) - The European visitors strolling Tunisia's Hammamet resort are an encouraging sign for a government determined to minimize the fallout of last week's shooting of 20 tourists in the nearby capital. But there is anxiety about the future in the five-star hotels, trinket...

 Mainstream rebels in southern  Syria  say foreign states have stepped up weapons supplies to them since Damascus launched an offensive early last month to regain the frontier zone near Jordan and Israel. This suggests President Bashar al-Assad's Arab and...