The elected Local Council in the liberated neighborhoods of Aleppo announced the reopening of Civil services Department next Saturday where citizens can register their civil matters of deaths, marriage,divorce in centers of  Al-Ansar, ALShaar and Hanano.  The new...

Millions hope so, it seems; they have signed a national petition demanding the president resign and plan to take to the streets on June 30, when Mohamed Mursi marks a year in office. Their slogan is a call for revolt: "Tamarud - Rebel!" But for all the simmering discontent with...

A member of Oxfam lays flowers in front of the City Hall in Belfast June 17, 2013. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, U.S. President Barack Obama will try to find common ground with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern...

Sadness is written on the face of 45-year-old Jamila, living in the open-air municipal courtyard of Arsal in Lebanon and still traumatised by her escape from Syria's former rebel stronghold Qusayr. Along with her sick husband and three children, she fled the town in Syria's central province...