Syrian opposition members have rejected an amnesty offer by President Bashar al Assad as a token concession in order to contain a crisis that has called the legitimacy of the current leadership into question.

At least four Yemeni soldiers have been killed and dozens injured in an apparent ambush as they travelled to Zinjibar, a southern city reportedly under the control of al-Qaeda fighters, a security official has said.

A new report is criticizing the tactic of US law enforcement agencies in sending paid informants into mosques to instigate and trap Muslims into terror plots.

Friends of humanity international called on the military Council and the government in Egypt to fulfill their pledges to break the siege on the Gaza Strip, open the Rafah border crossing and release Palestinian prisoners.

Syria’s brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protests took a chilling turn on Monday with the discovery of a mass grave in Deraa, the town at the heart of protests roiling the country for two months, an activist said.

After complains of secret surveillance and trapping Muslim worshippers, the FBI is changing tactics to win the trust of the sizable Muslim minority. “They are as American as apple pie,” US Attorney Wifredo Ferrer told the Miami Herald on Monday, May 16.

At least eight people were killed and dozens injured as thousands of Palestinians at home and abroad marked the Nakba Day, which marks the creation of Israel.“The return is a practice, not a slogan,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a meeting with refugees in Ramallah.

At least four people have been killed after army troops stormed the town of Talkalakh in the restive Homs province in western Syria.Witnesses said those killed on Saturday were among dozens of people attempting to leave Talkalakh and enter Lebanon, which borders the town, a day after a mass demonstration there against the rule of […]

Security forces killed six people in demonstrations across Syria on Friday calling for an end to autocratic rule, rights campaigners said, after the government pledged to hold a “national dialogue” in coming days.

Holding crosses and Qur’an holy books, tens of thousands of Egyptians rallied in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir square on Friday, May 13, calling for national unity and solidarity with the Palestinians on the memory of Nakba Day.