Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out. Iraqi border posts along the Syrian frontier are coming under attack, and Syrian...

The National Mall was filled with a grisly but starkly beautiful reminder that atrocities are happening around the world. Visitors to Washington, D.C. this weekend saw a National Mall transformed into a mass grave. It took more than 1,000 volunteers, clad all in white, more than four...

  Aleppo's Sharia Council also issues a "fatwa" forbidding the killing of anyone accused of blasphemy without referring them to specialists. The Council condemns the killing of a 14-year-old boy for blasphemy after a statement delivered by  of Jabhat al-Nusra said, ''We...

    The activists and civil society in Aleppo have organized a protest   in front of Sharia Council headquarter, demanding justice for a 14-year-old boy, allegedly by al-Qaeda-linked fighters who accused him of blasphemy.. In response to the increasing condemns,...