Agriculture Minister Riad Hijab is named as new prime minister of Syria by President Bashar al-Assad.
Approaching his 18th birthday, Hamza, a merchant sailor from Syria, resigned himself to the fate awaiting him when he reached adulthood: A year and a half of mandatory military service. Then last year, the uprising against Syrian President
Barbara Walters, the grande dame of American television news, has admitted to trying to further the career of one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s media advisors, after recently-released emails exposed a major conflict of interest. Walters had bee
Reports of torture of three female Syrian activists arrested for protesting raised concerns across the country. Noran al-Ghamian, 20, her mother Lina Mahayni, 52, and Nagat Murshid, 57, were arrested on May 27 while taking part in a protest to condemn th
Syrian forces killed a Lebanese man and wounded at least two others in a gunfight on the Lebanese-Syrian border on Wednesday, security sources said. They said the fighting broke out after Syrian security forces intercepted a group of arms smugglers cross
Israeli troops early Wednesday arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in the West Bank city of Jenin, the group’s managing director said, calling it part of a pattern of “harassment.” The theatre’s Israeli-Palestinian director, Ju
Dozens of people are dying each day in Sudan’s conflict-stricken border regions because the government is stopping foreign aid groups delivering food and medicine to large parts of the territory, a rebel leader said. Khartoum dismissed the accusati
تبنى مجلس النواب الروسي "الدوما" ليل الثلاثاء الأربعاء، بعد قراءة ثانية ثم ثالثة، مشروع قانون يفرض غرامات كبيرة على الذين يشاركون وينظ
كلف الرئيس السوري، بشار الأسد، وزير الزراعة الحالي، رياض فريد حجاب، بتشكيل حكومة جديدة، وذلك في إجراء كان متوقعاً بعد الانتخابات البرلماني