Egyptian police have arrested dozens of activists in the face of opposition calls for protests on Friday after parliament passed a controversial agreement to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia. A lawyer working to release the activists said about 50 had been arrested across Egypt since...

( The Wall Street Journal )- Southern Syria, once the quietest corner of the country’s multisided conflict, has unexpectedly become the most volatile flashpoint between America and Iran as the two countries vie for control. The U.S. military has moved mobile artillery-rocket launchers...

Reporting by Shams el-Din Matoun (Eqtsad)- Many of the rich people of the city of Idlib managed to preserve their capital and trade under the conditions prevailing in the province. Their biggest concern remained is how to save money especially since the banks stopped working like other vital...

(The Independent)- The first victim of the horrific Grenfell fire has been named as Mohammed Alhajali – a Syrian refugee who came to Britain to seek a “better life”. A friend of the victim, who was studying civil engineering at the University of the West London, said he lived on the 14th...