Syrian forces killed dozens of protesters on Friday despite assurances by President Bashar al-Assad that a crackdown was over, and thousands of people rallied across the Arab nation with renewed vigor

The United States and European Union called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down on Thursday and President Barack Obama accused him of 'torturing and slaughtering' his people in what U.N.

A Jordanian prosecutor on Friday charged a man with premeditated murder after he confessed to killing his 22-year-old wife over her alleged 'bad behaviour', a judicial official said.

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Syrian forces shot dead 16 people on Friday when they fired on protesters demanding the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, activists said, and European powers said Damascus should face tougher sanc

Hundreds of Syrian soldiers in combat gear broke into houses and made arrests overnight in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, scene of a mass demonstration against the president last week, a resident said

A Jordanian court on Monday put on trial in absentia Danish artist Kurt Westergaard who is being sued in the kingdom for blasphemy over a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday sacked the government of Samir Rifai and named Maruf Bakhit Prime Minister with orders to car-ry out “true political refo-rms”, the palace said, after weeks of Opp

Clashes and riots following a football game between Jordan's leading sports clubs on Friday injured some 150 people, including 25 police officers, the government said.

Jordan's ministry of religious affairs on Saturday urged citizens to gather next week and hold special prayers for rain across the parched kingdom.

A Grad-type rocket smashed into a street in the Jordanian port of Aqaba on Monday, injuring four people, one seriously, the interior minister said.