Five hundred and twenty-one and the number is still rising. Today, the Syrian people have faced one of the most gruesome massacres of the last three years of Revolution.

In the suburbs of Damascus, in Jdaydet Al-Fadel, the regime government mercilessly massacred its own people. Dignity and humanity were forgotten as men, women, and children were held at knifepoint, brutally mutilated, and slaughtered like animals.

The world has witnessed this terror being inflicted on the people of Syria for over two years. We have witnessed massacres like this in Darayya, Al-Houla, Homs, Hama, and all over Syria. We have witnessed as the Syrian people's struggle for freedom has been met with snipers, bombs, knives, and even chemical weapons.

Dubai International Airport is set to take over London’s Heathrow Airport as the busiest in the world by 2015, said Willie Walsh, CEO of International Airlines Group.
In a statement at the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, Walsh said that the UAE’s tax-free system has facilitated the aviation industry boom, reported UAE based Gulf News on Thursday.
He noted that Gulf airlines are among the most advanced in the world.
“Gulf airlines are the most progressive at the international level: Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways for example, as they benefit from the tax free systems to improve their performance and to expand further,” stated Walsh.
The CEO stressed that there will be tough worldwide competition in the global aviation market in the near future as well as an increase in demand regarding international travel.
“In five years, a new type of aviation market will be introduced and it will be different from what we know now. And in 20 years from now

A United Nations human rights and counter-terrorism official said the Pakistani government made clear to him it does not consent to the strikes that it claims have killed at least 400 civilians.

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi on Sunday officially opened the world's largest concentrated solar power plant, which cost $600 million to build and will provide electricity to 20,000 homes.

An all-girl teenage rock band from Indian-administered Kashmir has decided to split after the region's top Muslim cleric declared their music to be ''un-Islamic'', their manager said today.

Pragaash, a three-piece group whose members are still in high school, had been the target of an online hate campaign ever since winning a Battle of the Bands contest in December.

But after initially insisting they would continue making music, they have now called its quits after the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, Bashiruddin Ahmad, branded them as ''indecent'' and issued a fatwa calling for them to disband.

''After the fatwa the girls decided to quit and disband,'' Adnan Mattoo, the band's manager, said in brief comments to AFP.

The mother of one of the girls confirmed that her daughter had decided to leave the band, saying she was staying with relatives outside Kashmir until the fuss died down.

''My daughter had been depressed and irritable so we decided to send her away to anoth

A radical leftist terror group has claimed responsibility for Friday's suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, which killed a Turkish guard and wounded a television journalist.

In a statement on its website, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party, or DHKP-C, said "E. Alisan Sanli has become a martyr after accomplishing the action on the American Embassy in Ankara." The governor's office on Saturday confirmed his identity through forensic testing.

Authorities have since detained three people for questioning over the attack and continue to investigate, according to

You might have seen this picture above related to a recent story about how the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan stopped for a lost school girl. It was originally posted on UAE Facebook page.

However, after further investigation, it seems that the story is actually not true.

Egypt exploded in turmoil this weekend with at least 30 people killed in clashes over an unpopular court verdict Saturday following a day of politically charged violence throughout the country.

Uyghurs say Chinese companies are passing goods off as halal products imported from Muslim countries.

More than a million Muslims gathered on the banks of a river in Bangladesh on Friday to pray and listen to religious scholars at the start of the world's second largest annual Islamic congregation.