BEIRUT: Amid the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, where those escaping war have at times faced barbed wire and tear gas, the world of football has provided...
BEIRUT: The Iraqi government has recognized that the growing and widespread mental health crisis in the country needs urgent attention, and has asked MSF to...
BEIRUT: The siege around Eastern Ghouta near Damascus has tightened, Medecins sans Frontieres has reported, after a month that witnessed the greatest regime...
BEIRUT: ISIS has again used chemical weapons in Syria, and may have up to 200 tons of mustard gas, experts have said. Elsewhere in Syria Monday, the regime...
BEIRUT: The Syrian regime is increasingly attacking hospitals and health care workers in rebel-held areas, experts say, as it cedes ground to the opposition....
BEIRUT: On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 16, the residents of besieged Douma felt reassured that it was going to be a quiet day. There had been no sounds of...
BEIRUT: Recounting telling friends where his summer tour schedule was taking him, jazz bassist and blues vocalist Richard told the crowd Sunday that it went...
BEIRUT: As thousands of civilians remain trapped in Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp, an outbreak of potentially fatal typhoid has been reported, amid a wider...
BEIRUT: Amid a flurry of diplomatic developments on Syria, perhaps the most concentrated since the war begin over four years ago, have we entered the...
BEIRUT: The infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the first time in five decades, according to an UNRWA study, and a U.N. health expert says Israel’s...
BEIRUT: The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, missing in Syria for more than 1,000 days, appealed Tuesday for the U.S. and Syrian governments to do...
BEIRUT: Civil society groups from across Syria have come together to urge an end to the barrel bomb attacks on civilians and all-inclusive peace talks as the...
BEIRUT: Four years after the Syrian uprising-turned-war began, the humanitarian situation is dramatically deteriorating and international powers have offered...
BEIRUT: Whether inside the country or as refugees, Syrian women have borne the brunt of the conflict over the last four years, forced to become the...
BEIRUT: A new campaign is urging the U.S. government to share radar information with Syrian aid workers on incoming barrel bomb attacks, in an attempt to save...
BEIRUT: Ahead of a donor conference in Geneva Tuesday, rich countries are being urged to resettle just 5 percent of Syrian refugees by the end of 2015. Some...
BEIRUT: We had known for the last year that our friend was in the custody of ISIS militants but a media blackout meant it was just discussed within our group...
BEIRUT: Accused of using starvation as a weapon of war, the Syrian government continues to besiege areas across the country, forcing civilians to find new...
BEIRUT: Having taken land five times the size of Lebanon, and establishing the first “caliphate” in nearly 100 years, the rapid advances of ISIS are...
BEIRUT: While airport terminals might boast – admittedly drab – multifaith prayer rooms, the House of One project in Berlin seeks to become the first...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s political and media adviser, Bouthaina Shaaban, the target of EU and U.S. sanctions, is in Oslo for secret talks,...
BEIRUT: As senior figures from both sides of the U.S. political divide are calling for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to quit, analysts warned that...
BEIRUT: On the eve of Syria’s first multicandidate presidential election, Facebook faced demands to donate the money it received for paid advertisements...
BEIRUT: Just outside of Jerusalem’s Old City lies Mount Zion, the site of King David’s Tomb and the Cenacle, where the Last Supper was said to...
BEIRUT: The overwhelming majority of attacks on hospitals and medical staff have been carried out by the Syrian government, the U.S.-based NGO Physicians for...