The United States called Wednesday for journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012, to be freed, reiterating the belief that he remains alive and is being held against his will. Seven years to the day after Tice was forcibly detained near Damascus, State Department spokesperson...

Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe snippets of users' conversations, US media reported on Tuesday, amid heightened scrutiny of the social network's data collection practices. Facebook acknowledged the transcriptions, which were first reported by Bloomberg,...

South Sudan announced that it would scale up its monitoring of the Ebola virus after an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever was reported in recent months in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   A simulation exercise slated for Aug. 16 is to be carried out in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fleeing the Syrian cities and towns continues as the Syrian regime continues to seek revenge against own people. Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ), legal association, stated that different parts of southern Syria have witnessed a new wave of migration, which locals...