It is an everyday occurrence at border crossings out of Syria, but for four-year-old Marwan, it must have been terrifying. After being temporarily separated from his family at the remote Hagallat crossing on Sunday, he was found by staff from the UN's refugee agency. Andrew...

Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday slammed Iraq's government as corrupt and headed by a "tyrant" while calling on citizens to vote, days after announcing his exit from politics. The televised speech seem aimed at establishing the cleric, whose political career began in...

U.N. workers on Sunday found a four-year-old Syrian boy crossing the Jordanian desert to be with his parents, in the latest poignant story emerging from the country’s bitter civil war that has left more than 130,000 people dead. “Here 4 year old Marwan, who was temporarily...

Four members of a Syrian family were stabbed to death on Monday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, national media outlets reported. Amin Ezzedine, Alexandria’s head of security, told Egypt’s Alhayat television that after their murder, the Syrian family’s house was set on fire....