#crackdown

The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria`s bloody protest crackdown in an initiative ...

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon travels to Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates this month, where he will discuss the ...

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media ...

China said Thursday police killed seven "terrorists" who took hostages in the nation`s restive Xinjiang region during ...

China on Thursday expressed its support for Arab monitors in protest-hit Syria, after France charged the team had not ...

A suspected bomb blast near a church outside the Nigerian capital on Christmas morning killed at least 15 people, a ...

Loyalists of Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday attacked demonstrators gathered south of the capital calling ...

Syria agreed on Monday to let Arab states monitor its compliance with an Arab League peace agreement aimed at stopping ...

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated Friday across the country rejecting an amnesty given to President Ali ...

Hollywood actor Christian Bale was roughed up by Chinese security guards as he attempted to visit a blind legal ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies he is responsible for the killing of thousands of protesters, telling a US ...

Police in China have arrested 608 people suspected of selling children and freed 178 children, including some infants, ...

The French ambassador to Syria has returned to Damascus after being recalled to Paris in mid-November following ...

The Arab League`s ministerial meeting on Saturday approved a travel ban on Syrian high-ranking officials and a freeze ...

An Arab League ministerial committee on Saturday slapped 19 Syrian officials with a ban on travel to Arab states and ...