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BEIRUT — Activists on Saturday raised the number of those killed in an alleged massacre by Syrian regime forces in a region in the center of the country to more than 90.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's foreign minister said Wednesday that authorities have located 11 Lebanese Shias kidnapped the previous day in Syria and that he expects they will be released soon.
Adnan Mansour said he had been in touch with a number of...
BEIRUT — Activists and state media say a bomb has exploded in the Syrian capital, killing at least five people.
The blast appears to have targeted a restaurant, according to photographs released Tuesday by the state-run news agency SANA....
AMMAN, Jordan — A prominent Palestinian writer who was jailed in Syria for nearly three weeks described the facilities as “human slaughterhouses,” saying security agents beat detainees with batons, crammed them into stinking cells...
RAMPUR SINGHARA, India — The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle.
Two years later, she...
DAMASCUS, Syria — A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior UN officials toured the area on Sunday, the latest incident in which the unarmed observer mission has nearly been caught up in the country's...
BEIRUT — A restive district of the Syrian capital has been rocked by overnight fighting between government forces and army defectors, opposition groups said Sunday.
The Local Coordination Committees and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
BEIJING — A plane carrying a blind activist at the center of a US-China diplomatic tussle has departed from Beijing for the United States.
Chen Guangcheng and his family were on United Airlines Flight 88, which the airline said...
SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni troops battling Al-Qaeda fighters in the country's south have forced them to retreat but military officials said Thursday the push in a major southern city is going slowly because of concerns the militants could stage...
BEIRUT — In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has insisted his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a year-long...
