DAMASCUS- Rebels have expelled jihadists from four areas in the Damascus region, after having lost territory to the Islamic State in the north and east of Syria, a monitoring group said Monday. IS,...
PARIS, Mariette Le Roux- Anti-AIDS drugs have helped save 19 million years of human life since 1996, said an analysis Tuesday which also slashed UN estimates for HIV deaths and disease by a quarter....
DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reappointed Najah al-Attar as his vice president but made no mention of his other deputy, the veteran diplomat Faruq al-Sharaa. Attar, 81, the only...
SARCELLES, Juliette Montesse, Sim Sim Wissgott- A French rally against the deadly Israeli offensive in Gaza once again descended into chaos Sunday as protesters looted shops and riot police lobbed...
SINGAPORE- A censorship row in Singapore escalated Wednesday when judges of a literary prize quit over the national library's plans to destroy three children's books deemed to be pro-homosexual. In a...
LOS ANGELES, Veronique Dupont- The gulf between rich and poor; America's culture of violence; freedom pushed to its extreme limits: "The Purge: Anarchy" may be primarily an action movie, but it...
GAZA CITY, Sara Hussein- Israel began a ground operation in Gaza as a deadly offensive to stamp out rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave that has cost 247 Palestinian lives entered its 11th day...
ISTANBUL- A Turkish teenager who won fame as a fantasy novelist has died in a mysterious fall from an Istanbul balcony which police are investigating as a possible suicide, reports said Thursday....
DAMASCUS, Roueida Mabardi- President Bashar al-Assad was sworn in Wednesday for a new term, warning Western and Arab governments of the backfire they face for their support of the armed revolt in...
AMMAN- The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence, international agencies said on Wednesday. Save the Children, in a...
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