(Zaman Al Wasl)- A man and woman were killed on Monday as 10 more people were wounded in regime mortar fire on the besieged neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs city, residents said. Despite the U.N.-brokered truce reached last December, the Syrian regime has never abide by the ceasefire deal....

A top United Nations official urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children, some of whom are locked up in police cells for weeks, and to develop child protection services instead. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, said he...

Turkish authorities on Monday detained seven suspected ISIS members, including figures described as a senior leader and an "executioner", the state-run Anatolia news agency said. The seven suspects were detained during raids on addresses in the eastern region of Elazig. Large numbers of...

 A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War One, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed - and some in the region see opportunity in the chaos. These include Israelis or Kurds who seek to...