Assad government has planned to provide a petition to the international community saying; ‘’Yes for New Presidential Period for Bashar al-Assad in 2014,’’ sources revealed. Syrian employees have no escape from signing the petition under threat of termination, activists...

An Iraqi freelance cameraman killed in Syria was buried in his hometown city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, with hundreds of fellow journalists attending the ceremony. Yasser Faysal al-Joumaili was executed by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria and is the first foreign journalist killed by...

The Syrian crisis and the Iranian nuclear accord will take the center stage in discussions Tuesday among the heads of government of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait. The topic of peace between Israel and Palestine will also be on the agenda besides a plan to form a strong...

A Republican U.S. senator touring the Middle East this week got access to Saudi royals that some in the State Department at times, lately, could only dream of. That includes a three-hour session ending at 3 a.m. with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom’s intelligence chief and...