Rome will send military instructors to Iraq, Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Tuesday. Gentiloni, during a 24-hour visit to Iraq, said in a joint press conference in Baghdad with his Iraqi counterpart, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, that Italy hoped to strengthen...

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(Reuters) - Satellite imagery indicate that 290 cultural heritage sites in Syria , whose history stretches back to the dawn of civilization, have been damaged by its ongoing civil war, the United Nations' training and research arm (UNITAR) said on Tuesday. Syria's heritage spans...

I will do my best to spread hope in Aleppo this Christmas, but it is hard to celebrate when your city is in ruins. Four years ago, Aleppo was a thriving, cosmopolitan place, but everybody has suffered in Syria’s terrible war. The rich have left, the middle classes have...