Deep in the desert and far from his former base of power, ousted President Mohammed Morsi is being held in a sprawling penitentiary that is notorious as one of Egypt's highest-security prisons. The move appears aimed not only at isolating him from other Muslim Brotherhood leaders who...

 Russian representatives and members of the Syrian opposition are set to meet in Geneva Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Russian media. "We will hold a whole series of contacts with the Syrian opposition," he was quoted as saying late Tuesday by the Interfax...

    Egypt’s ousted President Mohammad Mursi spent his first night in a civilian penitentiary in a hospital room after he complained he wasn’t feeling well, senior security officials said Tuesday.   The Interior Ministry denied that the 62-year-old...

The Shiite Turn in Syria (Part Three) is in-depth study by the researcher Khalid Sindawi, Zaman Alwasl republishes this important paper which appeared   before in Volume 8 of   Current Trends in Islamist Ideology ,   published by Hudson Institute,  ...