(Reuters) - The Egyptian government launched a determined effort to get out the vote on Tuesday after lower than expected turnout in a presidential election threatened to undermine the credibility of the frontrunner, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. After Sisi called for...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A convoy of inspectors from the international watchdog overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program came under fire on Tuesday in Syria but all staff members were safe, the organization said. The statement came within minutes after...

  (By The Nation -Lauren Wolfe)- The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back out. I was sitting in a sweaty, brightly painted room in southern Turkey. The man behind the desk was a...

  (Reporting by Aabed Melhel; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ALEPPO (Zaman Alwasl)- 25 people were killed when a barrel bomb hit Bostan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo on Monday, destroying 2 buildings. Activists said that that lack of...