Sexual abuse, beatings, yelling, deprivation of food, lack of medical care and psychological torment.  This was life in Israeli detention for Amena Hussain*. The Palestinian mother of three was abducted by Israeli forces from her place of refuge in the war-torn Gaza Strip in late...

LONDON (AP) — A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government's decision to  revoke her U.K. citizenship , with judges saying that it wasn't for them to rule on whether it was “harsh” to do so....

The Syrian newspaper Al-Watan criticized the rise in fees for telecommunications services, especially since this is accompanied by a further worsening of the services provided, and the Syrian Telecom justification for raising tariffs with the aim of improving the quality of service is not...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli strikes hit a neighborhood of the Syrian capital on Wednesday morning, killing two people and causing material damage, Syria's state TV said. There was no confirmation of the strikes from Israel. The Syrian state TV reported that several missiles hit the...