When Sunni officer Fahed al-Freij was promoted to replace Syria’s defense minister, slain in a bomb attack two weeks ago, few people paid much attention and rebels dismissed him as inconsequential. But Lebanese officials close to the Syrian government
Attacks in Iraq killed 17 people on Thursday, including four members of a family who were murdered with knives, security and medical officials said. Militants attacked the house of a Turkmen family in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, killing a fath
At least one person was killed in clashes that erupted downtown the Egyptian capital on Thursday afternoon, Egyptian media reported. Dozens of civilians with Molotov cocktails have set light to several parked vehicles beside Cairo’s Nile City Towers an
أعلن الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة بان كي مون اليوم الخميس استقالة مبعوث الأمم المتحدة والجامعة العربية إلى سوريا كوفي أنان من منصبه، وألقى كو
A convoy of trucks left Riyadh for Syrian refugee camps in Jordan on Thursday evening carrying the first batch of aid from a 10-day national appeal that has so far raised $125 million. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter and birthplace of I
انتقد الرئيس السابق للمجلس الوطني السوري برهان غليون الإعلان عن تشكيل حكومة انتقالية في الوقت الذي يخوض فيها الثوار معارك طاحنة على الأرض،
تنتهي الخميس المهلة التي حددها مجلس الأمن الدولي للسودان وجنوب السودان للتوصل إلى اتفاق بشأن القضايا العالقة بينهما، بينما طلبت الخرطوم مس
Kofi Annan tells heads of UN and Arab League that he will not renew his mandate when it expires on August 31.
The increasing crime rate especially with the remarkable rise in the number of illegal manpower and the consequent frequency of armed burglaries drove Saudi girls to demand the right to carry weapons and get the necessary training to use them for self-de
Kofi Annan tells heads of UN and Arab League that he will not renew his mandate when it expires on August 31.
The UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, is leaving his post, the UN says, as violence in the country continues.
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is stepping down as the U.N.-Arab League mediator in the 17-month-old Syria conflict at the end of the month, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Thursday. “Mr. Annan has informed me, and the Secretary