Syrian female activist Majd Izzat al-Chourbaji received the International Women of Courage award Friday in a ceremony at the U.S. State Department. Chourbaji, 34, was one of 10 women honored for risking their lives to protect others. After...
(Reuters) - Militant gunmen attacked Libya's al-Ghani oilfield on Friday, killing 11 guards, beheading some of them, before local forces fought back to retake control, an oil security official said. The al-Ghani attack illustrated Libya's growing instability where two rival...
Syria's envoy to the United Nations says it's time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the Middle East into sectarian enclaves....
About 8000 families in the rebel-held city of Erbin near Damascus have received food baskets distributed by the local council, activists said Friday. The aid, which included basic food staples, came in response to a charity campaign to help thousands of locals and...
