An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the jailing of three leading figures of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, tightening a crackdown on secular activists opposed to the army-backed government. Critics see their case as an attempt to stifle the kind of political street...

President Bashar al-Assad has forecast that much of the fighting in the Syrian civil war will be over by the end of the year, a former Russian prime minister was quoted on Monday as saying. "This is what he told me: 'This year the active phase of military action in Syria...

The most powerful rebel alliance fighting in Aleppo province released a video Monday announcing “the first stage” of what they are calling the “I’tassam” campaign targeting a number of military sites in and around Aleppo. The campaign by the Joint Operations Room “will...

A masked gunman opened fire on a well-known, elderly Dutch priest in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest, an activist group and Syria's state-run media said. Father Francis Van Der Lugt was gunned down inside a monastery in the...