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More than 200,000 prisoners are believed to be held in the camps. Some of them are Christians who were sent to the jails simply for professing faith in Christ.

President Bashar al-Assad's regime has earned worldwide outrage for months of violence against its own citizens. Yet, military assistance is slow in coming.

Rescue teams are losing hope of finding any survivors in the landslides triggered by Monday's powerful earthquake in the Philippines.

The long-time U.S. ally now appears to be playing a hostile game of chicken, with American pro-democracy workers caught in the middle.

For the fifth successive day, government troops continued the onslaught in the central Syrian city of Homs Wednesday.

The United States closed its embassy in Syria Monday to protest the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A British court has ruled that Abu Qatada, an extremist Islamic cleric with alleged ties to al Qaeda, should be released on bail.

Egypt plans to put 19 Americans on trial for illegally using foreign funds to provoke unrest. The U.S. has threatened to cut off aid if Egypt it goes through with the trial.

The European Union considers global warming to be a scientific fact. But now that Europe is in the freezer, many climate experts have gone silent.