BEIRUT: Militants from ISIS now control or threaten key facilities on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, generating fears that the Al-Qaeda splinter group could...
BEIRUT: A quarter of all Syrian refugee households in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt are now run solely by a woman, leaving mothers struggling to make ends...
BEIRUT: One in four Syrian refugee households in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt are now run solely by a woman, leaving mothers struggling to make ends meet...
BEIRUT: The military wing of Syria’s biggest Kurdish party employs child soldiers in its fight against Al-Qaeda in areas where abuses in detention and...
BEIRUT: One of the few remaining hospitals in rebel-held Aleppo will be forced to close its doors at the end of the month, after a major international NGO...
BEIRUT: Government-held parts of Aleppo have been hit by a power cut for seven consecutive days, an anti-regime group said Friday, part of a series of...
BEIRUT: Hard-line Islamist groups active in Syria are holding hundreds of people captive, largely for financial gain or to stoke fear within the Syrian...
BEIRUT: A former U.S. soldier of Lebanese descent who fought alongside the Nusra Front in Syria has died of an “accidental overdose” in his hometown of...
BEIRUT: Activists in Aleppo have responded to the popular #SaveKasab movement, which warns of rebel attacks against the predominately Armenian town, by...
BEIRUT: As Syria’s bloody civil war enters its fourth year, funding for the region’s 2.5 million refugees is drying up, forcing the U.N. and NGOs to make cuts...
BEIRUT: Deaths from chronic diseases such as cancer and epilepsy have risen dramatically during Syria’s civil war and are among the conflict’s biggest killers...
BEIRUT: When Heba learned her husband had been detained in a Damascus prison, she frantically tried to track him down. Requests were made to the military...
BEIRUT: The United Nations reacted with shock Tuesday to a report that the Syrian regime had systematically tortured and killed thousands of prisoners in a...
BEIRUT: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday aged 85, was widely reviled in Lebanon for his role in the invasion of the country in...
BEIRUT: Food supplies that reached starving residents in a besieged suburb of Damascus over the weekend are only enough for around half the population for one...
BEIRUT: A fragile cease-fire to allow emergency food and medicine provisions into the besieged Yarmouk camp in Syrian capital has collapsed, activists said...
BEIRUT: Residents and fighters fear they may be starved out of the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk as the siege of the Palestinian area approaches its fifth month,...
BEIRUT: A tall, angular woman strides down a Cairo street. “Hey there, sweetheart!” a bald man catcalls after her. Suddenly, the man has his head...
BEIRUT: Alma is having trouble sleeping. The 16-year-old says the tent she calls home brings back memories of her cousin’s funeral and she is having...
BEIRUT: An award-winning Palestinian lawyer has warned that the tit-for-tat cycle of arrests between Hamas and Fatah factions is leaving human rights in the...
BEIRUT: The Tunisian Interior Ministry said the practice of women traveling to Syria for sex jihad had now been completely halted, following controversial...
BEIRUT: A slim majority of Iranians and Americans support direct engagement between their governments, a new poll published Monday found, as the countries...
BEIRUT: The Israeli army is to withdraw its troops from 22 communities along its borders with Lebanon and the Gaza Strip by the end of October, Israeli media...
BATROUN, Lebanon: Kloe is an excitable, if undeniably overeager host. She rushes to greet guests, running wildly in laps around the car, tongue askew, until...
BEIRUT: The number of Syrian children who have fled violence in their homeland has topped 1 million, the United Nations said Friday. "This one millionth...