Syrian President Bashar Assad has praised Russia for restoring balance to international relations flowing long years of ‘hegemony’ by the United States.
The Libyan parliament has voted to oust Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, naming the defense minister as caretaker premier until a permanent replacement has been approved.
Al-Qaeda is going to launch a new web-based, English-language magazine, as the group attracts more radical militants to join its ranks in the US-backed Syria war.
Three suicide bombers have detonated their explosive belts in a hotel in Syria’s northeastern town of Qamishli, killing three people, state news agency has reported.
Qatar has defended its foreign policy in the face of recent moves by Saudi Arabia and two other Persian Gulf countries that recalled their envoys from Doha accusing it of meddling in their affairs.
The United Nations says number of children impacted by Syria's war has doubled in the past year to 5.5 million, many of them trapped in besieged areas and beyond reach.
Bahraini protesters have held demonstrations to protest against what they call Saudi Arabia’s occupation of the country.
Confined for years to the margins of society by a repressive and dictatorial government, Saudi Arabia’s women’s rights advocates continue to revolt against gender segregation and “absolute male guardianship.”
Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Amman to protest the shooting of a Jordanian judge by Israeli troops near the border with Jordan.
Israel fears fighters in Lebanon and Gaza would deploy exploding drones as well as their main rocket arsenals against the regime in a future war, the chief of Israeli air defense says.