Here is a look at Arab Spring, anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread throughout the Middle East and Africa in 2011. Algeria January 4, 2011 – Protests begin, ...
Top US officials say that Sudan's military leader has used chemical weapons—twice, reports the New York Times. The allegation ...
Fear about how the country’s new Sunni Islamist rulers will act toward Syria’s various minorities, such as the Kurds and Alawites, is already brewing. Some rights groups and critics have pointed to ...
Twenty-eight Egyptian, Arab, and international human rights NGOs have issued a joint statement expressing “deep concern” over ...
Public hangings are generally from a construction crane, an especially slow and agonizing execution method.The frenzy of ...
Activist Abdel-Rahman al-Qaradawi faces grave risks after Lebanon’s swift extradition to UAE, raising questions about ...
Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...
President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania paid respects to the late President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday before ...
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...
DAMASCUS, Syria — The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad landed Tuesday at the Damascus airport. The Qatar Airways flight landed at ...
DAMASCUS, Syria — (AP) — The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad ... that preceded Assad's ouster. On Tuesday, al-Shibani traveled ...