Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday. Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking...

The Syrian army has secured most of the area around Aleppo International Airport and could reopen the facility which fighting has kept closed for nearly a year, a military source said Monday. "All of the area southeast of the airport is in the hands of the army," the source told AFP,...

  It was reported to Zaman Alwasl that 3 nominee ministers in the Interim government have failed to reach to the required number of votes, therefore, the Coalition has decided to assign the Ministry of Health to the Interim Prime Minster, Ahmad To'ma, and the Ministry of Education...

Rana Obaid began her life less than two years ago in a comfortable house draped with roses, the daughter of a grocer locally famous for his rich homemade yogurt. But war and siege brought hunger so quickly to their town near Damascus that when she died in September, at 19 months, her arms...