This week, France and Germany will be honouring brave women and men who are fighting for the rights of others throughout the world. Maria da Penha from Brazil has used a wheelchair since being attacked by her husband in the 1970s, and now campaigns tirelessly for the protection of women...

Civilians are fleeing from one part of opposition-held eastern Aleppo to another amid a flurry of attacks by the Syrian regime, according to a local civil defense official. "Those we save today are killed tomorrow," Ammar Assalmo, an Aleppo-based civil defense official, told Anadolu Agency....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A rebel body in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs, in statement issued Friday, refused calls for reconciliation with the Syrian regime, urging to keep figh against regime and allied forces.  “We in the Eastern Ghouta are still carring our arms to liberate our...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Friday met with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley town of Barr Elias. Steinmeier arrived in Beirut at dawn for a one-day trip to Lebanon. UNHCR has registered some 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, but the Lebanese government...