LONDON- Some 30 celebrities have petitioned the UN demanding they take action to protect civilians, notably Palestinian refugees, caught up in the Syria conflict as it entered its fourth year on...

UNITED NATIONS- The international mediator on Syria warned Thursday that any presidential election held in Damascus in the coming months would imperil efforts to negotiate an end to the three-year...

DAMASCUS- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has signed a new law regulating the entry of Arabs and foreigners into the war-torn country, newspapers said Wednesday. "Any person entering or leaving...

WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he hoped to decide soon on whether to restore the full $1.5 billion in American aid to Egypt. "We want this interim transitional government...

LONDON, Guy Jackson- A British man who suffered horrific facial injuries in a motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to rebuild his face using 3D printed parts. Stephen Power from Cardiff in...

WASHINGTON- Astronomers have spotted the largest yellow star ever observed in our galaxy and 1,300 times larger than the sun. The yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 A is also in the top-10 of the largest...

BEIRUT- Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant "executed" at least 22 people, including 12 rebels, in the north of the country Tuesday, a monitoring group said. "ISIL members...

PARIS- Nicotine patches fail to help pregnant women to stop smoking, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Tuesday. Researchers in France asked more than 400 women who...

DAMASCUS- A group of nuns held by Islamist rebels in Syria were freed Monday in a prisoner swap with Damascus that brought a rare ray of hope to the country's beleaguered Christians. Scores of...