The Pompidou Center modern art museum – one of the biggest tourist draws in the French capital – will remain closed this weekend because of a week-long strike by security guards, its management said. Around 100 guards walked out on Monday over a new law which forces them to become civil...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of Raqqa Provincial Council warned Saturday of imminent disaster as all solutions prevent Euphrates dam collapse are time-wasting. "Opening of al-Balikh Canal to relieve the pressure on the Euphrates dam'' has been of no use. On the contrary, it is exacerbating the...

Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an uprising calling for more freedoms in the North African country. The 2011 revolution that toppled longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ushered in a new era of freedom...

Syrian state TV says scores of opposition fighters and their families have left the central city of Homs after being evacuated from the last rebel-held neighborhood. The TV says 350 people boarded 22 buses that later moved toward the country's north in the third evacuation from al-Waer...