The al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have started working with crime syndicates and racketeering thugs for kidnappings, arms-smuggling, and widespread looting. Syria’s insurgent militias are becoming ever more enmeshed with organized crime, blurring the line...

Twitter is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet. U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with Facebook, will launch...

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will discuss the details of the Geneva II Conference with U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in Paris on Sunday. "We will work on establishing a transitional government with executive powers (just) like what the Geneva I...

A deadly attack was launched by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on the town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb on Friday, according to a statement from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC). In the statement, the SNC called on countries of the “free world” to...