Syria's exiled opposition, in written statement, has declined invitations from Russia and Egypt to attend peace talks with representatives of Bashar al-Assad's regime. According to AFP, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said this week...

At least 30 people have died from H1N1 – so-called “swine flu” – in Turkey since 2014, Turkey’s highest Health Ministry official said on Monday. “We have collected a total of 4,300 samples from patients, out of which 366 were cases of H1N1, known as the swine flu,”...

Al Qaeda’s Syria wing backed by Islamist rebels on Monday have launched a major military operation in the northern countryside of Aleppo,   seeking to recapture villages were controlled by Syrian regime forces early this month, activists said....

(Reuters) - The European visitors strolling Tunisia's Hammamet resort are an encouraging sign for a government determined to minimize the fallout of last week's shooting of 20 tourists in the nearby capital. But there is anxiety about the future in the five-star hotels, trinket...