Syrian refugees rejoiced on Sunday at the news that Angela Merkel had secured a fourth term as German chancellor, but said they were alarmed by the rise of the far-right AfD party, which they feared could push her to tighten asylum rules. “We prayed that Merkel would win,”...

(The Middle East Eye)- Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a prominent Syrian opposition activist and her daughter who were found stabbed to death at home in Istanbul, as the US government moved to condemn the atrocity. Orouba Barakat, 60, and her only daughter, journalist...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three arrest warrants were issued by the Syrian intelligence for Dr. Orouba Barakat, the senior opposition activist who has been found dead with the U.S.-born daughter at their apartment in Istanbul on Thursday. The prominent activists, and her only child, journalist Hala...

A Syrian anti-Assad activist and her journalist daughter have been found dead at their home in Istanbul, police said Friday. The bodies of Orouba Barakat, 60, and her 22-year-old daughter Hala Barakat were found in their apartment in Uskudar, a neighborhood on the Asian shore of the...