HOMS, Syria (AP) — Two years after the last Syrian rebels left the besieged Old City of Homs, voices echo through the shells of bombed-out buildings, their upper floors tilted at odd angles as though frozen in time. "There is no danger here, because there isn't anybody," a soldier said as...

(The Telegraph)- Every year, a few hundred thousand hardy tourists make it to the snowy town of Akureyri in the far north of Iceland, braving 70mph winds and freezing temperatures in search of ski slopes, whale watching trips and the Northern Lights. Yet the town’s newest...

The civil war in Syria has seen scores of refugees crossing the sea to reach Europe- where they are not always welcome. One family fled the Syrian capital Damascus over a year ago and in search of a new home, they made the trek down south, to South Africa. Yaser and Safaa Jabri Al Rehawi have...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Recent Syrian regime’s military campaign and Russian airstrikes on the countryside of Hama have increase the burden on the civil defense forces, which already suffer of shortage of manpower and equipment. Zaman Al Wasl has observed the suffering...