In the wake of the military seizure of power in Egypt last July, US secretary of state John Kerry praised the coup leader General Sisi for "restoring democracy". Last November, in a sign of approval for the new regime,  Kerry visited Cairo where he said that Sisi’s "road map" to...

    On Thursday, news circulated that scores of insurgents had been killed in a failed operation in Homs city in central Syria On Friday morning, the death toll was put at 65, but it was still unclear — how and why had these men died? Rose al-Homsi...

  Lugging three plastic sacks full of clothes, Abu Mohammed and his three daughters pulled back the wrought iron border crossing gate, stepped through it into Turkey and smiled. As one daughter wept tears of relief, her father recounted their 12-hour journey from...

  The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has taken most of the town of al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province after fighting with rebels, an NGO said Monday. The advance by the group in the country's turbulent north comes after 10 days of fighting pitting...