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Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 35 people Thursday — including nine journalists — on suspicion of links to last…

Suicide bombings in Lebanon last month have prompted mass arrests, curfews and reported vigilante-style attacks directed at the large Syrian…

Vinuta Gopal, acting head of Greenpeace India, has had more than a few sleepless nights over the past year worrying…

Government security forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel henchmen and suffered one fatality in a firefight in western Mexico on…

The international body tasked with eliminating Syria's chemical weapons has raised only enough money so far to fund its mission…

Beirut -- Syrian activists say troops have bombarded a town in the central province of Homs with artillery, causing several…

Manama -- Thousands of Bahraini Shias gathered before a revered cleric on Friday denounced death sentences given to protesters over…

Beirut -- Gunfire reverberated Tuesday in the southern Syrian city of Deraa where the dead still lay unclaimed in the…

Dubai -- Bahrain should investigate the death in police custody of three Shias, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on…

Amman -- Syrian authorities have released prominent human rights defender Suhair al-Atassi, one of her lawyers said on Monday.