The prominent free speech campaigner Mazen Darwish was released from prison in Syria Monday after more than three years behind bars, pending a verdict in his case at the end of this month, his wife and activists said. “We are not saying he is free. There is still a trial,” his wife, Yara...

  The Fatah Army launched an attack Saturday on the last two Shiite villages under regime control in northwest Idlib province, rebel source and activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups, which includes Al-Qaeda branch the Nusra Front, carried out a new attack on the villages of Foa'...

Fighters backed by an Arab military coalition seized the key city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen on Saturday, residents and militia sources said, dealing another major blow to the dominant Houthi group. The capital city of Abyan province on the Arabian Sea had been a major focus...

International diplomacy efforts to find a political solution in Syria have yet to bear fruit as the civil war in the country entered its fifth year in March 2015. In an attempt to find common ground with other countries pursuing contrary policies, and as one of the leading actors in this...