Al Arabiya (tv network)

Syria denied Saturday that Vice President Farouk Shara had defected, as opposition reports continued to provide conflicting accounts of whether he had fled to neighboring Jordan or was still in the country....

Gunshots ring out. The video camera suddenly drops toward the pavement. The last footage taken by Mika Yamamoto, the Japanese journalist who died Monday in Syria, ends abruptly with those sudden shots, a grim suggestion of her own life cut short....

Saudi Arabia's Transport Ministry has come up with a novel way to cut traffic in the kingdom's congested cities: Taxis will now be banned from cruising the streets and picking up passengers without an advance booking....

Syrian President Bashar Assad says he has no intention of leaving Syria, despite demands from Washington and elsewhere that he relinquish power....

In the wake of a bombing attack that killed at least three senior Syrian officials, the silence of President Bashar Assad spurred furious speculation over his whereabouts and whether the embattled Syrian leader had himself been wounded in the bombing....

A former Syrian general whose defection was called a major blow to President Bashar Assad has finally spoken out publicly, voicing support for the rebellion but expressing fears that Syria could be torn asunder. “Our duty, as Syrians, is to unite...

BEIRUT -- The case of dozens of Iranians abducted in Syria took a dramatic and potentially sinister turn Sunday, when a purported Syrian rebel commander appeared in a video calling the captives Iranian operatives on a “reconnaissance mission”...

Syrian rebels claimed Monday that they had shot down a government fighter jet and captured its pilot, and videos posted on an exiled opposition website purported to show the Russian-made MiG-23 struck by machine-gun fire and engulfed in flames....

A Jordanian lawmaker has landed in hot water after he drew a gun (though without firing) and tossed a shoe at a critic during a live television debate over the crisis in neighboring Syria....

Saddam Hussein's daughter Raghad Saddam Hussein is said to be looking for an international publisher for the handwritten memoir of her deposed father, who was executed in 2006....

Burhan Ghalioun, the head of Syria's main government-opposition alliance, announced that he would resign after members accused him of "political and organizational failure."...