Syria’s Consul General Hazem Chehabi in California has resigned from his post in protest of last weekend’s al-Houla massacre that left at least 100 people killed, a U.S. radio station reported him as saying on Wednesday. “You get to a point where
Syria’s ambassador to the U.N. told reporters on Wednesday that Damascus is committed to the U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan’s plan and that the international community shouldn’t escalate crisis in the country but must mitigate it. Syria w
Kidnapped journalist Romeo Langlois released by FARC fighters a month after being taken hostage in a firefight.
قتل 39 شخصا بينهم 15 جنديا اليوم الأربعاء في سوريا التي شهدت امتدادا في رقعة الاشتباكات بين القوات النظامية والمعارضة المسلحة، بينما أعلن مرا
A YouTube video of a young Saudi woman yelling at officers from the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), also known as the “muttaween” in a shopping mall in Saudi Arabia has gained a lot of attention on social media forum
Observers from the UN confirm the discovery of 13 bodies of men bound and shot in Syria as concern over civilian suffering continues.
Iran had no ties to any Shiite groups in Egypt that recently opened a Husseiniya (Shiite house of worship) in Cairo, an Iranian official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. According to Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm, secretary general of the World Assembl
A Saudi court overturned on Wednesday provisions of a labor ministry circular that allowed saleswomen to work alongside men in shops, a lawyer told AFP. The court in Riyadh “abolished part of the decision by the ministry of labor which al
The window for dialogue over Iran’s nuclear program is closing, the U.S. ambassador to Israel said Wednesday, insisting Washington holds no illusions over Tehran’s agenda at the talks. Speaking at Tel Aviv University a week after world
Since the toppling of the regime following the January 25 revolution, former President Hosni Mubarak’s life behind bars has been talk of the town ─ yet no one knew for certain what his life was like in his prison cell. It was only when an Egyptian ind
The appeals court in Kuwait on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for a Kuwaiti housewife for murdering her Filipina domestic helper but commuted the punishment on her disabled husband. In February, the lower court sentenced the couple to death after co