Yemen government forces have thwarted a "massive" Huthi attack west of Marib city and reinforced their positions as they defend their last northern stronghold, two military commanders and an official said Tuesday. But they said the Iran-backed insurgents had advanced in four areas of the...

A pomegranate shipment hiding millions of  Captagon  pills entered Lebanon in stages through the Masnaa border crossing with Syria, a Lebanese customs official has claimed in an interview with Arab News where he tried to lessen his country’s responsibility for the drug-stuffed...

Because of a letter he wrote to his friends, Riyad Ular, a Turkish student in Syria, spent over 20 years in the regime’s darkest prisons of the political security, the military Sednaya and Adra prison, with his family oblivious to his whereabouts for years. Ular, 45, came from a...

A leading Syrian rights group Monday called on the international community to reject next month’s presidential elections because they will take place under the rule of President Bashar Assad, who is implicated in war crimes. Paris-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, describing the...