Turkey's powerful populist leader Recep Tayip Erdogan shows no signs of flinching against masses of angry protesters who brand him a dictator, dismissing them as "a handful of vandals". Thousands have rallied, complaining that he is pushing conservative, Islamist-flavoured...

 Turkey's deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government's violent crackdown on an environmental protest , a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the country's major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of  riot police...

    Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, President of the World Union of Muslim Scholars, has called for   al-Jihad in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, calling for supplying Syrian men by arms and support. Al-Qaradawi revealed that al-Assad had asked Khaled Meshaal,...

Secretary-General of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, revealed through a letter to Sheikh Mouaz al-Khatib, that the former president of the National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces had asked the Arab league for an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers in order to inform...