Beirut (AFP) - Syrian rebels and Al-Qaeda seized the southern town of Nawa Sunday from troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad after months of intense fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Both local rebel groups and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front claimed...

By Zeina Al Chofi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed SWEIDA (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Tension prevailed in Druze-dominated province of Sweida when senior officer in regime security threatened a prominent cleric of reprisal. In details, the issue started when a young man...

(Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed and around 100 wounded overnight when Syrian government war planes bombed a town in northern Syria controlled by Islamic State militants, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday. The attack came hours before a United Nations mediator...

(Reuters) - Some Egyptian human rights groups shredded documents on Sunday and instructed their staff to stay home as a government deadline approached for them to register under a Hosni Mubarak-era law they say seeks to eliminate them. Egypt's government says groups doing...