At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the regime’s army. The opposition...

Two teenaged Norwegian sisters who ran away from home in October, saying they wanted to help rebels in Syria, are indeed in the war-wracked country, a lawyer for their family confirmed Thursday.   The youngest, aged 16, is injured and has to be treated before she and...

  An appeals court in Egypt on Saturday ordered 14 women jailed after a protest to be freed, reducing 11-year prison terms to a one-year suspended sentence.   The women's supporters in the Alexandria courtroom chanted "God is great" as the judge...

Syrian Opposition activists have sparkled major outrage via social media after circulating photos for an old man has been murdered by Iraqi militants in the town of al-Nabk, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus. Munir Abdul al-Hai (pictured), a man in his sixties has...