(Writing by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Amal, the 23-year-old Syrian girl was hesitant to talk about her traumatizing experience during detention in Syrian regime’s prisons. Amal joined the revolution since the beginning, despite she is from Hama, the Syrian city known of...

The military commander of the Syrian insurgent group Nour al-din al-Zinki Battalion has been killed, the group said in a statement Monday. Nasif Ismail was killed fighting in southern Aleppo, where a major ground offensive by Syrian army troops seeking to regain rebel-held...

 The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants Monday, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. In desperate scenes, several thousand people, many of them Syrians fleeing war, spent the night on the muddy...

Michel Platini, president of European football body UEFA and suspended amid a huge corruption scandal rocking the game, admitted Monday there was no written contract for remuneration he received from world body FIFA. FIFA's suspended president Sepp Blatter said last week that a $2.0 million...