DAMASCUS, Roueida Mabardi- Each evening, Zakaria Orchi has been meeting up with friends at a favourite cafe to lounge away the hours, just as they used to during Ramadan nights in Syria's capital...
GAZA CITY, Mai Yaghi, John Davison- Fresh Israeli bombardments killed five people in Gaza Sunday, hiking the death toll from the assault to over 350, as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict picked...
GENEVA- The United Nations has delivered life-saving aid to thousands of people in the besieged Syrian town of Moadamiyet al-Sham for the first time since early 2012, humanitarian agencies said on...
CAIRO, Tony Gamal-Gabriel, Samer Al-Atrush- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas reached out for French help Friday to lobby Hamas's regional allies to influence it into accepting a truce with Israel,...
UNITED NATIONS- Libya asked the United Nations for help Thursday to build up its security forces, with the foreign minister warning that his country could turn into a "failed state." Libyan Foreign...
JERUSALEM, Jonah Mandel- Israel resumed a punishing air campaign against Gaza Tuesday after its Palestinian foe Hamas rejected a truce and fired dozens of rockets over the border, killing an Israeli...
WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden congratulated violence-plagued Iraq for electing a new parliamentary speaker Tuesday, a move Washington called an important first step in forming a government...
UNITED NATIONS, André Viollaz- The UN Security Council adopted a resolution Monday authorizing humanitarian convoys to Syria without the consent of the Damascus regime, to help more than one million...
BAALBEK- Clashes between Syrian rebels and Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah on the Lebanese border have claimed at least six lives, sources said Sunday. Three Hezbollah fighters and three...
GENEVA- Europe has taken in only a "minuscule" number of refugees from Syria and must do more to help the war-torn country's neighbours shoulder the burden, the UN's refugee agency said Friday....
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