More than two months ago on March 21, demonstrators in Daraa set fire to the ruling Baath Party’s headquarters and government buildings. Police officials started gunning down the crowd reportedly killing hundreds by March 24. The total may have exceeded 5,000 now, reports say.
A least one man was injured when Syrian security force fired to stop a demonstration against Baathist rule on Saturday night in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, Reuters reported.
North Korean food crisis is no longer news, but this year it has made unusual public pleas for food aid. Should North Korea get food aid or not? While the easy answer to the heartrending stories of North Korean's plights may be unconditional food aids, there are more significant factors, complex and indispensable for the ultimate well-being of the North Koreans in the long run, to be considered.
An Islamic states association has complained about a European draft resolution that asks the UN Security Council to condemn Syria and has demanded that part to be deleted.
Some of the biggest and best-known international banks held billions of dollars Libyan state oil money.
Neo-Nazi movements have cropped up in some unlikely places. Consider Mongolia, the vast and remote nation in northern Asia.
Keiko Fujimori, Right-wing lawmaker has overtaken leftist Ollanta Humala in the opinion polls in recent weeks by survey firm Datum and may reflect the same in Peru's June 5 presidential runoff.
Ethnic Mongolians have staged a rare protest demonstration in northern China after a shepherd was killed, according to the US-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre. (SMHRIC).
The Supreme People's Court - the highest court in Mainland China - has ordered lower courts to suspend death sentences for two years, but only in cases that does not call for immediate execution.”
Rainforest activist and his wife were ambushed and shot dead in the Amazon state of Para in northern Brazil on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron laid out their broad guidelines for using force against other nations in the context of a wide-ranging opinion piece on Tuesday which touched upon rising democratic movements in the Middle East and the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan.
North Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong-il toured east China on Monday, while the U.S. government team flew to North Korea to assess food shortages.
An Egyptian court has passed the first death sentence to a police officer for killing protester during the uprising that has overthrown President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian state TV reported on Monday.
While critical food shortage is affecting a quarter of North Korea's population of 24 million, the secret lives of leader Kim Jong Il and his top aides, who are living lavishly in their own paradise, indulging in debauchery and womanizing, and are brazenly violating human rights norms, are slowly being unraveled.
TRIPOLI- The Syrian refugees fleeing to northern Lebanon were stopped on Thursday, as the Syrian and Lebanese authorities set out to close the border, a local media reported.
The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has condemned sanctions imposed on the country by the President of the United States, according to Syrian state media, SANA.
In his much anticipated Middle East speech, President Barack Obama gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad two choices: Lead the transition toward democracy, or get out of the way.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is under house arrest, as a new parliamentary session is set to open.
The United States has slapped sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad for the violation of human rights, reported Reuters on Wednesday.
The United States, for the first time, has imposed sanctions on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six of his top aides for human rights abuses.
Free North Korea Radio, run by North Korean defectors, reported last Tuesday on the murderous acts toward disabled children by the country's own government. Disabled children who are born in the city of Pyongyang are taken into government run hospitals and are suffocated to death by smothering wet towel over their face.
The U.S. government will impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria, as well as six top Syrian government officials, over human rights abuses perpetrated over the past two months of unrest in that country, according to reports.