(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A leaked document from the archive of the Syrian regime showed that in 2015, the Syrian regime reported 686 defected soldiers and officers, most of them were of relatively high ranks, as almost 53% of them were sergeant and first sergeants, and...

A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help Syria's Kurds fight Islamic State has left the front lines and returned to Israel, citing the spread of Iranian influence in the war zones among her reasons. After eight months in which she was often incommunicado,...

Euro zone leaders argued late into the night with near-bankrupt Greece at an emergency summit, demanding that Athens enact key reforms this week to restore trust before they will open talks on a financial rescue to keep it in the European currency area. Leftist Prime Minister...

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in "books not bullets". Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot on a...