At least 29 people were killed in clashes in Egypt Saturday during rival rallies on the anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, underscoring the country's violent polarisation.   Three years after Egyptians rose up to demand the overthrow of...

   “Because his wife wasn't wearing a veil when they were walking in the city of Raqqa, he was arrested by the State of Iraq and The Levant,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Another man has been arrested due to sitting in front of his house...

Syria's air force struck rebel-held areas near Damascus and Aleppo Saturday, a monitoring group said, as regime and opposition representatives met briefly in the same room in Geneva for peace talks. Government warplanes fired rockets at Talfita north of the capital, and helicopters...

It has emerged that Azerbaijani nationals are among the foreigners fighting in the Syrian conflict. Video footage shows Azerbaijanis among the rebel forces, and a number have been reported killed. While most seem to come from Azerbaijan’s Sunni Muslim minority, and gravitate towards...