Iraqi Kurdistan has asked oil companies operating in the autonomous region for $50 million to help deal with an influx of refugees from  Syria  that has put a strain on its resources. Around 200,000 refugees, many of them from Syria's own Kurdish minority, have poured into the...

  Activists of the embattaled city of homs say U.N reports have confirmed 8 massacres only in Syria whilst the massacres of the revolution capital are forgotten. After 30 months of killing, massacres, bombarding and shelling it is hard to find any area or neiborhood in Homs...

In the  Odessa Steps scene  of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film  “Battleship Potemkin,”  a boy no more than 3 or 4 years old is shot by czarist troops. Bleeding, he falls to the ground, where he is trampled by a frantic crowd fleeing the massacre. His anguished mother...

  The 1500 martyrs, who were killed in the chemical weapon attack on al-Ghouta near Damascus, were not the last to be killed by the Assad regime. 3 weeks passed on that horrible massacre, during that more than 2200 people were killed, 100 death daily, with...