A Japanese program aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria promised Wednesday to remove language from documents which implied that pregnant women are not welcome to apply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in May that immigration-shy Japan, with a population of...

"Where are you, Oh Arabs, Oh Muslims, while we are being slaughtered?" An old man's cry, in a video posted online from Aleppo's ruins, poses an uncomfortable question for the mainly Sunni Muslim Arab states backing rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia....

Syrian activists say the last buses meant to evacuate rebels and civilians from Aleppo have been delayed for nearly 24 hours. Reasons for the delay aren't clear. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict through activists on the ground, says 60...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have lost more than 75% of attack helicopters of different missions including mi-8, mi-17, mi-25, and gazelles, since the outbreak of the revolution in March 2011, well-informed source said. The source revealed that the regime has only less than 50...