The UN Human Rights Council has called for those behind “massive scale” enforced disappearances in Syria during the past 10 years of conflict to be held accountable. The resolution, presented on Tuesday by several European countries, the United States, Turkey and Qatar, decried that...

  A fresh rocket fire targeted the largest U.S. base in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Tuesday, the second attack to hit the facility within 24 hours, according to the state news agency SANA. Smoke was seen rising from the base located in the al-Omar oil field in the...

Captains  of  Zaatari  by Egyptian director Ali El-Arabi will be shown next October at the International Asian Film Festival in Los Angeles. Mahmoud and Fawzi have been living in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Though they both have no sense of what the future...

Sakina, who is 11, maybe 12, walked with her family for 10 days after the Taliban seized her village in northern Afghanistan and burned down the local school. They are now among around 50 families living in a makeshift camp on a rocky patch of land on the edge of the northern city of...