They arrived with bulldozers and ordered him to leave. When the Syrian restaurant owner asked why, he was threatened with detention. The security forces that had arrived unannounced that morning denied him permission to remove anything from the shop his...

President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday savaged the opposition for inflaming tensions in Ukraine's crisis after he unexpectedly went on sick leave with no end in sight to the turmoil. Yanukovych turned on the "irresponsible" opposition which has refused to abandon more than two months...

  Syria needs lots of things right now. One of them is George Clooney . Let me explain. As the Geneva II talks this week made clear, there is no end in sight for the bloody three-year war in Syria. In the meantime, more than 100,000 people have been...

  The United States said on Thursday expressed concern at Syrian government’s slow efforts to transport chemical weapons to the port of Latakia after a report said that less than 5 percent of the arsenal had been delivered and that work to destroy the weapons has fallen...

  Tunisian Tourism Minister Amel Karboul submitted her resignation to Prime Minister Mahdi Jomaa over a trip to Israel in 2006, the state news agency TAP reported on Thursday. The trip, brought up during a parliamentary session to give a vote of confidence to Jomaa’s...

Among dozens of Syrian and foreign journalists covering the Syria peace talks in Geneva, Elissar Moualla stands out. The popular Syrian news anchor, working for the state-sponsored Syrian TV, never misses an opportunity to confront the opposition delegation. With a loud and agitated...

Egyptian prosecutors said on Wednesday that they were charging 20 journalists working for the Al Jazeera television network with conspiring with a terrorist group and broadcasting false images of “a civil war that raises alarms about the state’s collapse.” The charges are...

"Terrorism" is the subject of Thursday's morning session of the Syria peace talks in Geneva now in its seventh day.  Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special envoy of the UN and the Arab League and the delegations from Syrian regime are also expected to...

At least 62 people, including an unknown number of children, died when barrel bombs were dropped from the Syrian army helicopters in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday according to the Syrian Revolution General Council (SRGC) .  The death toll...

  A U.N. convoy carrying food for the people of the old Syrian city of Homs is waiting to be allowed passage, as residents plead for the government to end a siege that's been starving them for nearly 600 days. "Our trucks are loaded and ready to go in as soon as all...

    Journalists and activists loyal to opposing sides of Syria’s civil war have managed something the negotiators at this peace conference haven’t – talking to each other. Inside the wood-paneled negotiating room at the United Nations’ “Geneva II” talks, delegates...

Not so long ago Noura al-Ameer was being beaten and subjected to electric shocks in a Syrian prison. Today, she sits across from the regime that put her there, hoping diplomacy can end her country's suffering. "It was as if I was seeing the faces of the killers, the bombers, the...

The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former U.N. secretary general - hardly known as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as global powers were hopelessly divided....

      The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) said in statement, posted online yesterday, that two fighters of its armed group, loyal to Assad,  were killed in a clash with the Free Syrian Army in Al Hosn district of Homs province. “They were...

    The Turkish armed forces attacked a convoy of al Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire on Tuesday, destroying three vehicles, Turkish media said on Wednesday. Turkish troops opened fire on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...

The Assad military continues to bombard Darayya, southwest of Damascus, amid ongoing fighting between regime forces and insurgents for control of the suburb — activists report at least 22 bombs, including “barrel bombs”, dropped today. There seems to be a massive push to demolishing...

  Syrian government forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held districts of Aleppo Wednesday, killing 13 people as they pressed an assault southeast of the northern city, a monitoring group said. Government troops also battled rebel forces near Krak des Chevaliers, a famed...

Syria’s opposition said peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Geneva took a step   forward on Wednesday with discussions on a transitional government after four days of deadlock. There was no immediate confirmation of this from the regime  delegation...

Ahmed Odeh was watching a YouTube video about the abysmal conditions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Syria's war-torn capital Damascus. A small girl in the video was crying and shouting, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry." After watching the video, "I had the idea to make a...

 The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is upgrading some of its BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to enhance their survivability during counter-insurgency operations. While numerous improvised protective measures have been seen on SAA armour over the past two years, a...