WASHINGTON- Syrian activists Friday called for the brother of an opposition delegate to the Geneva peace talks to be released after he was snatched from a Damascus suburb by Syrian security services....
BEIRUT- Syria's army is preparing an assault on a key rebel bastion near Damascus, a pro-regime newspaper said Thursday, as the opposition reported a "massacre" of civilians near Damascus. "The...
UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon drew a parallel Thursday between Syria's civil war and the Rwandan genocide, describing both conflicts as gross failures of the international community to stop...
PARIS- A diet rich in calories and carbohydrates may slow progression of the lethal, degenerative Lou Gehrig's disease, according to a small-scale study reported in The Lancet on Friday. Formally...
WASHINGTON- The Syrian regime has arrested relatives of the opposition's delegation to the Geneva peace talks, a US official said Wednesday, calling for their immediate release. Washington was...
CAIRO- An Egyptian court sentenced 26 people to death Wednesday for forming a "terror group" to target shipping passing through the Suez Canal, judicial sources said. The death sentences on the...
BEIRUT- Nearly 2,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are in danger of starving to death if they do not receive immediate treatment, UNICEF said Tuesday, warning of a looming malnutrition crisis....
CAIRO- Militants blew up a pipeline in Sinai late Tuesday that transports gas to Jordan, security officials said, in the fourth such attack this year in the restive peninsula. Militants planted...
WASHINGTON- Maria Franziska von Trapp, the last survivor of the Austrian musical family whose escape from the Nazis was immortalized in "The Sound of Music," has died, her half brother told US media...
CAIRO, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- Prosecutors Sunday accused deposed president Mohamed Morsi of leaking state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guards as part of a plot to destabilise Egypt, at the second...
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