UNICEF has said that the child refugees who fled Syria's war are vulnerable to exploitation including early marriage, domestic violence and child labour, despite efforts to keep them in school. More than one million children, some without parents or close...

International inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program, a spokesman said Thursday, as the team races to destroy the country's stockpile and delivery systems amid a raging civil war. Underscoring the complexity of the mission, a regime warplane...

Alice Munro , the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish...

Al-Qaeda linked-groups with FSA rebels recaptured  a strategic town in northern Syria,  field sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham  and Jabhat al-Nusrah have controlled  Khanasir, a town that sits on the government supply...

  Free Syrian students Union stated via social media that the Turkish Government would accept the Syrian Students who got the high school certificate in rebel-held areas under the supervision of opposition National coalition in its universities and educational institutions....

  The U.N.-backed tribunal set up to try the alleged killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri said Thursday it had indicted a fifth suspect connected with the 2005 Beirut bombing .   A pre-trial judge confirmed the...

  It will be Morsi's first court appearance since his July 3 ouster by the military following massive and well-coordinated protests against his presidency .   The son of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi blasted an announcement by...

There is no difference between the post-coup interim govenment and Mubarak-era Egypt, said the Secretary General of German Amnesty International. The interim government in Egypt will destroy the Muslim Brotherhood," Secretary General of German Amnesty International Selmin...

 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the scientists' research in the...

The Pentagon is suggesting the world's chemical weapons watchdog use a U.S.-made mobile destruction unit in  Syria  to neutralize the country's toxic stockpile, officials told Reuters. It gave a briefing on the unit on Tuesday to officials at the Hague-based Organization for...

 Syrian air raids on rebel positions in the northern Aleppo and southern Daraa provinces killed 30 people on Thursday, including civilians, a monitoring group said . With the world's attention trained on Syria's chemical weapons, set to be destroyed by...

  Turkey has frozen the accounts of people and organizations linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, in compliance with a decision by the United Nations’ Security Council. The Ministerial Cabinet decided to freeze the accounts of 219 people and 63 organizations linked...

  Footage has surfaced on the internet showed militants of Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, executing wounded Syrian rebels  the border city with Lebanon, Qusayr. '' We are killing them for the sake of God,'' one of militants said, without any mercy, many bullets were fired on rebel...

Translation from Arabic by Yusra Ahmed - Military and Local councils of al-Zara village near Tal-kalakh appealed to the National Coalition and for all humanitarian organizations to interfere as soon as possible to save thousands of lives of this region. The appeal,...

   Rebels of Salah al-Din neighborhood in Aleppo achieved an important progress, field source told Zaman Alwasl. Free Syrian Army Fighters have made gains near 'Sahabi' Bilal's Mosque, which is very close from the base of Assad forces in Hamdaniya stadium....

Pakistani teenage activist shot last year by Taliban is awarded EU prize for fighting for girls' rights to education. Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls' rights to education, was awarded the European Parliament's...

An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday it had information about what it said was a center for nuclear weaponisation research in Tehran that the government was moving to avoid detection ahead of negotiations with world powers. The dissident National Council of Resistance...

  Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed by former rebels who seized him from a hotel earlier on Thursday, the state news agency reported.  Zeidan was seized by former rebels and was held at the ministry’s anti-crime department, according to Reuters. The...

Al-Qaeda linked-groups with FSA rebels are very close to retake   a strategic town in northern Syria,  field sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham  and Jabhat al-Nusrah have cut off Assad forces' only supply route out of...

The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Mideast ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation's first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil. While the...