Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have laid the groundwork to resume peace talks frozen for three years and will meet in Washington within “the next week or so,” US secretary of state John Kerry sai

A global children's aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syrian children are being ‘badly traumatised’ after witnessing killings, torture and other atrocities in their country's brutal conflict.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in the coastal city of Latakia, directing the response to the assassination of three of his top lieutenants, opposition sources and a Western diplomat said on Thurs

Jordan granted political asylum to a Syrian pilot on Thursday hours after he landed his jet at a military air base in the kingdom, in the first such air force defection in the 15-month revolt.

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A 17-year-old Jordanian went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, two brothers and an uncle because he had 'differences' with them, police said on Thursday.

Fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces erupted in an oil producing province in eastern Syria, residents and activists said on Sunday, the eve of a parliamentary election the au

A heavy firefight broke out on Monday between Free Syrian Army rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in a main district of the Syrian capital Damascus that is home to several security i

A Jordanian political activist was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison for undermining King Abdullah II's dignity, after he set alight a picture of the monarch this month.

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Rescue services evacuated 1,230 passengers onto life rafts from a burning ferry in the Red Sea on Thursday, with one Jordanian dying after jumping into the sea, Jordan's civil defence spokesman told t

The Libyan authorities should be allowed to form an interim government after a national congress is elected within eight months, said a top leader of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council on Sa