Senior Syrian opposition figures are questioning whether they should attend peace talks next month following U.S. warnings that the swift departure of President Bashar al-Assad from power cannot be guaranteed, opposition sources said on Friday. Speaking after meeting U.S....

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday demanded the release of leading Syrian women's rights campaigner Razan Zeitouneh and three fellow activists, abducted last week by unknown kidnappers. "We have all got to demand that they be released," Brahimi told activists from...

Syrian government forces are waging a systematic campaign of enforced disappearances to terrorise the population, amounting to a crime against humanity, a UN-mandated probe said Thursday. "Enforced disappearances are perpetrated as part of a widespread campaign of terror against the...

Egypt's public prosecutor charged former President Mohamed Mursi and 35 other top Islamists on Wednesday with conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt, in a case that could result in their execution. Declaring it "the biggest case of conspiracy in the history of...