Lebanon's Ambassador to Syria Michel Khoury will be referred to retirement at the end of December, which will prompt a vacancy in the post, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday. It said that Speaker Nabih Berri's daughter, Farah, may be appointed as his...

A key faction of Syria’s opposition accused the Syrian regime, Iran and Hezbollah of being behind the bomb attack that took place on Friday in Beirut, killing a prominent Lebanese politician. The car bomb that blew up in the Downtown district at the heart of the...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s statements that the Shiite holy city of Karbala must be the Qibla - the direction to which Muslims pray - has stirred controversy among Islamic scholars. “Karbala must be the Qibla of the Islamic world because Imam Hussein...

The rebellious neighborhood of Al Waer in embattled Homs has been suffering a sever siege for over 100 days by Assad Army, no food or medicine, local activists said. Starvation policy is the only option to punish people of rebel-held areas, Ahmed Mousa, 32, lives in Al...