Russia's UN envoy has sharply criticized Western nations' "small propaganda storm in a glass of water" regarding allegations that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people.
Israeli forces have arrested a five-year-old Palestinian boy because they said he threw stone at a settler's car near the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
Iran’s daily gas production will increase by 14 percent to reach 800 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d) by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014), an Iranian official says.
The CIA had information about tons of explosive materials imported to Lebanon by an al-Qaeda affiliated group while it also knew about the blast that targeted Beirut’s southern suburb before it happened, a report says.
Britain's parliament has backed a motion requiring Prime Minister David Cameron to give it a veto over any future move to arm Syrian militants, in a symbolic vote the government said it would heed.
Anti-terrorist operations by the Syrian army go on in Dara’a with many militants of Qatari, Jordanian, Saudi, Libyan and Egyptian nationalities killed in latest battles.
A US senator has called on the administration of President Barack Obama to attack Syrian “airfields, airplanes and massed artillery”.
Tunisian authorities have released from jail two former figures of the toppled regime who were arrested following the 2011 uprising for abuse of power, the Justice Ministry says.
Brutal killing of a 14-year old boy accused of blasphemy by western-backed militants in Syria’s Aleppo has come to symbolize concerns about the power of radicals in the insurgency in Syria.
Desperate residents in Aleppo, suffering from a strict siege imposed by foreign-backed extremist groups have staged a protest to call for an end to the blockade of the northern Syrian city.