An employee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) who was reportedly close to the organization’s negotiation team has been arrested on charges of "collaborating" with Israel, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported Sunday. Ma'an quoted an unnamed PLO official as saying that the...

(Washington Post)- When you are a major nuclear power and you want to make a secretive deployment to a faraway ally, what is the first thing you do? Draw up the terms, apparently, and sign a contract. That’s what the Kremlin did with Syria in August, according to an unusual...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians have been killed on Saturday in Russian air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo, activists said. Seven people were killed in al-Sakhour neighborhood when Russian warplanes fired vacuum missile into the local marketplace, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. 8 more...

Unverified reports say 15 to 20 people died of starvation in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor last year, the United Nations said on Saturday, warning that 200,000 residents there face a severe food shortage and sharply deteriorating conditions. Western parts of the city have been...