The number of children affected by the civil war in Syria has more than doubled over the past year, with hundreds of thousands of young Syrians trapped in besieged parts of the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday. “After three years of conflict and turmoil,...

Syria freed only 25 prisoners, not 150 as had been reported, in exchange for a group of kidnapped nuns, the country’s information minister Omran al-Zohbi has said. The statement came despite mediators and the opposition saying nearly 150 female detainees had been freed in exchange...

   Syrian regime has issued a new law which is to ban Syrian citizens from leaving their country without permission (exit visa). Syrian News Agency (SANA) said Bashar al-Assad Tuesday issued a new law prohibiting entry into or departure from Syria for persons who do not hold valid...

After discovering China-made components in the F-35 fighter jet, a Pentagon investigation has uncovered Chinese materials in other major U.S. weaponry, including Boeing Co's B-1B bomber and certain Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighters, the U.S. Defense Department said. Titanium mined...

  A group of Tunisian prostitutes demanded Tuesday to be allowed back to work, 18 months after their brothel in the resort town of Sousse was attacked by hardline Salafists and closed down. A delegation handed deputy parliament speaker Meherzia Laabidi, a woman, a...

 Doha center for media freedom has interviewed fellow journalist Fathi Bayoud editor in-chief of Zaman Alwasl, who speaks about 3 years of covering Syrian conflict.  In short documentary, Doha center highlights most difficulties Arab journalists are facing in...

Protesters clashed with police in Turkey's two biggest cities on Tuesday after the death of a 15-year-old boy who was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister during anti-government demonstrations last summer. Police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds in Istanbul and...

A homemade bomb exploded in a Shi'ite Muslim village in Bahrain on Tuesday, wounding two policemen, the interior ministry said, nine days after another blast in the Gulf Arab kingdom killed three police officers. Bahrain has been grappling with unrest by majority Shi'ites over the...

Shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles have been trafficked out of  Libya  to Chad, Mali,  Tunisia , Lebanon and likely Central African Republic, with attempts made to send them to Syrian opposition groups, according to a U.N. report on Tuesday. An independent...

    The Libyan parliament voted Tuesday to oust Prime Minister Ali Zeidan amid anger at his government's failure to stop eastern rebels from independently exporting oil. “The situation in the country has become unacceptable. Even those MPs who used to...

Mouadamiya Al-Cham’s truce is just an ink on paper, that how it’s described by activist Mohammad Ghiath, who expressed his resentment of the deteriorating living conditions in the area. The embattled town in southern Syria, administratively is a part of the Rif Dimashq...

Activists reported that Damascus recently witnesses many incidences of arresting and detaining pro-regime people like informers, spies and popular committees' members in many neighborhoods. Activists confirmed that an informer in Bab Srijeh neighborhood, known to be a drug...

Syrian refugees in this border outpost were delighted to hear their home town of Azaz had been liberated - not from Bashar al-Assad's troops but from al-Qaeda fighters who subjected them to a regime that included torture and public beheadings. For Syrians who three years ago rose...

Dozens of Assad's forces and militias loyal to it were killed on Saturday in a successful operation conducted by Deir al-Zor rebels, activist reported. The rebels blew up fuel tanks and ammunition stores in the regime’s security square near the military hospital in "Ghazi...

Three northeastern provinces of  Syria  face an "alarming" food crisis, although access to relieve the impact of civil war has improved somewhat elsewhere, a U.N. aid agency said on Monday. Western powers and U.N. human rights investigators have accused the Syrian...

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian judge from Jordan on Monday in an altercation at a crossing point between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military said the man had tried to seize a soldier's gun at the Allenby bridge,...

A Saudi court sentenced a man to 10 years in jail and a 100,000 riyal ($26,700) fine for joining protests against the kingdom's rulers and using Twitter to urge people to do the same, state news agency SPA said on Monday. SPA quoted Justice Ministry spokesman Fahd al-Bakran as...

The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of...

Syria’s currently suspended seat at the Arab League will remain vacant until the opposition completes forming its institutions, the pan-Arab group’s secretary general said on Sunday. “The last Arab summit in Doha in March 2012 adopted the principle of granting Syria’s seat...

The woman and her 3 children, who had been included in the Nuns swap yesterday, are the family of rebel top commander based in Qalamoun, activists said. The swap in which Assad’s regime freed 151 female detainees, has included too the family of of top commander in...