(Reuters) - Two suspected al Qaeda militants blew themselves up early on Saturday after being surrounded inside a government building in southern Saudi Arabia , following an attack on a border post with Yemen , Saudi-owned al-Arabia television reported. The satellite channel,...

(Reuters) - A group of 46 nurses caught up in fighting in Iraq arrived home in India on Saturday after briefly being held captive by suspected militants, an outcome celebrated by the newly elected government in New Delhi as an early diplomatic success. The nurses, mainly...

(Translation by Dani Murad) As the battle for the Qalamoun region still raging, regime forces bombarded two days ago the village of "Bassima" in Damascus countryside with explosive barrels and mortar shells, meanwhile the machine guns of the...

(AFP)- More than six million children affected by the Syria conflict desperately need humanitarian aid, the UN's children's agency said Friday, with the number in need rising by a third in a year. UNICEF is warning that despite the spiralling numbers the organisation may have to...