BEIRUT, LEBANON- A car bombing killed six people including two children in a Kurdish area of Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Sunday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human...
BREDA, NETHERLANDS, Nicolas Delaunay- Dutch scientists are recreating the deaths of some of the world's most famous personalities by reconstructing their last moments using scents and sounds. From...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates- Police in Bahrain arrested the head of the banned Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq on Sunday after he had been called in for questioning, his party said. After Sheikh...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Shortages of food and medicine caused the deaths of more than 300 civilians, including about 100 children, in areas besieged by the Syrian regime in 2014, a monitoring group said...
ANKARA, TURKEY- Turkey has the freest press in the world, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, brushing off accusations that media freedoms were being eroded under his rule. "Nowhere in the...
DONETSK, UKRAINE- The big tree with the glimmering holiday lights is up but the festive spirit is missing on Lenin Square in the heart of east Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk. Hundreds of...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syrian regime air strikes killed at least 52 civilians, including seven children, in strongholds of the Islamic State jihadist group, a monitoring group said Friday in a new toll....
LOS ANGELES, US- Raunchy comedy "The Interview" -- featuring a fictional plot to kill North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un that has enraged Pyongyang -- opened in crowded US movie theaters Thursday...
VATICAN CITY, HOLY SEE, Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere- Pope Francis on Thursday roundly condemned jihadist violence and the "brutal persecution" of religious minorities in a Christmas message to the...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime will meet in Cairo to try to reach a common "vision" to end the nearly four-year war, an opposition source said Wednesday....