Month: March 2012

The six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council will close their Syrian embassies, the council said, calling on the international community “to stop what is going on in Syria.”

What do the recent reports of Syrian brutality mean for the future and will the violence only worsen? Arwa Damon explains.

Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 when President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority-dominated government launched a crackdown against a predominantly Sunni protest movement that grew into an uprising with an armed resistance. One year later, what …

Syria used to be an investment safe haven by Gulf nations. Now violence and political unrest has frozen the investments.

At the one year mark of Syria’s crackdown on demonstrators, Ellesar Hasan shares her ordeal that mirrors the agony of many in Syria.

CNN’s Kyung Lah reports from outside an Apple store in Japan where fans are lined up waiting to buy the new iPad.

Iran will not allow U.N. inspectors to visit a military base suspected of involvement in the development of nuclear weapons ahead of new talks with international powers because it would not help improve confidence, one of Iran’s most influential offici…

Afghans took to the streets Thursday to demand a U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians be prosecuted in Afghanistan as word spread that the American military moved him out of the country.