TUNIS, TUNISIA- A Tunisian border guard was killed on Sunday in a shootout with jihadists on the border with Algeria, state television and the president of a union of border guards said. "A border...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Shelling and air raids by Syrian government forces killed at least 20 civilians and wounded or trapped 200 on Saturday in rebel-held Douma east of Damascus, a monitoring group said....
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- A Syria-based journalist who has trained citizen reporters in the war-ravaged country has been named the recipient of the 2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The second-in-command of the Islamic State jihadist group has been killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq, the White House said Friday. The National Security Council...
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Maya Gebeily- The Islamic State group beheaded the 82-year-old retired chief archaeologist of Palmyra after he refused to leave the ancient city, Syria's antiquities chief said. A...
PARIS, FRANCE, Marlowe Hood- The occurence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease may have stabilised in some wealthy nations, according to a study released Friday. A review of data from Sweden, the...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Typhoid has broken out among Palestinian refugees from the besieged Yarmuk camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, a UN agency said Wednesday. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, Roueida Mabardi- The UN Security Council Monday backed a push for Syrian peace talks as the death toll in government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100,...
LIMA, PERU- Peru's leading newspaper said it will no longer publish editorials by the cardinal and archbishop of Lima after accusing him of plagiarizing past popes in his articles. The suspect...
MIAMI, UNITED STATES- More money is being spent on medical research but fewer new drugs are being approved and people are not living much longer than they did in the 1960s, said a US study on Monday....
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