Critics of US drones are using #BringBackOurGirls to send a message to US First Lady Michelle Obama. Obama posted a photo in support of the campaign to bring back the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, which received nearly 60,000 retweets. ...
LOS ANGELES—Long before he got to Hollywood in 2012, Jihad Abdo was already a bankable star. Over a 30-year career, he had been featured in hundreds of TV episodes, 43 movies and 21 plays set in modern and ancient times, in roles as varied as villain, military officer and prince....
ABOARD CARGO SHIP ARK FUTURA (AP) — Denmark's foreign minister on Tuesday urged Syria to give up the last of its chemical weapons agents within days to meet a June 30 deadline for completely ridding the war-torn country of its lethal stockpile. Martin Lidegaard said there are...
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in the Saudi Arabia Tuesday, the first leg of a regional tour focusing on Iran's nuclear programme and Syria's civil war. Hagel will hold talks with Saudi officials and on Wednesday he will meet Gulf Cooperation Council defence ministers...
Evidence "strongly suggests" Syria's government has used chlorine gas on three towns in mid-April in violation of the chemical weapons treaty Damascus joined last year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. "Evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government helicopters...
(Reuters) - Kidnappers freed Jordan's ambassador to Libya and he said on his arrival home on Tuesday that in exchange his government had sent back to Tripoli a Libyan Islamist militant who had been serving a life sentence for a bombing plot. Jordan's foreign minister said...
By Dasha Afanasieva GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Seven weeks after U.N. aid trucks crossed from Turkey into Syria for the first time, aid workers and officials in this southern Turkish humanitarian hub still have no idea exactly where the supplies ended up. The convoy...
Reporting by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad An official leaked document revealed that regime’s interior ministry had resorted to the "requisition” of all licensed weapons in HassaKa city, and refused totally to renew any license to carry or possess a weapon....
Government and rebels accuse each other of being responsible for cutting water supply to Syrian city, observatory says. Residents of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, have been without water for a week because fighters have cut supplies into rebel and...
Reporting by Mohamed Al-Faris GAZIANTEP (Zaman Alwasl)- Head of Syria’s opposition interim government said Monday the International Community did not want to resolve the Syrian crisis; instead it adopted crisis management policy, according to Zaman Alwasl...
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in London this week, the first time since peace talks collapsed last month, officials said Monday. "Secretary Kerry will meet with president Abbas in London on Thursday," State Department spokeswoman Jen...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday the Syrian civil war must be resolved through peaceful means, indicating Egypt would not support an armed intervention there, something previously suggested by some Arab states. Most of...
The UN Security Council should impose a ceasefire to end the bloodshed in Syria, Qatar's foreign minister said Monday, accusing the Damascus regime of using poison gas against rebel-held areas. "It is imperative that the UN Security Council assume its responsibilities and...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France circulated a draft resolution to U.N. Security Council members on Monday that seeks to refer the three-year-old civil war in Syria to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The...
AFP- Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said. The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also...
BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Monday between rival jihadi groups in an oil-rich eastern Syrian province bordering Iraq, forcing many residents to flee, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting concentrated on the eastern...
The foreign ministry said Monday that France and Germany intend to prevent Syrians living in their countries from voting in Syria's presidential election, expected to return President Bashar al-Assad to power. Germany and France are "preventing Syrians living in their territory...
Syrian Opposition government on Monday has allocated 250,000 dollars as ‘Instantaneous support' for the rebels of Homs since they evacuated the city after historical deal with Bashar al-Assad’s regime and after 30 months of severe siege and starvation...
Syria's presidential election campaign, launched at the weekend, has transformed the streets of Damascus into a glorification of incumbent Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to easily win the June 3 vote. On the streets, parks and buildings of the city, barely a wall can be seen...
Jordan, home to many Islamic and Christian holy sites, hopes a visit this month by Pope Francis will promote religious tourism and boost an industry hit hard by regional turmoil. Tourism contributes 12 percent of gross domestic product in the desert kingdom and last year saw...
