Yusra Mardini, the teenager who braved a Mediterranean crossing in a leaky dinghy fleeing war-torn Syria, won her 100m butterfly heat in Rio Saturday to launch an "amazing" Olympic experience. "Everything was amazing. It was the only thing I ever wanted was to compete in the Olympics," said...

Syrian resistance forces broke through to besieged opposition-held areas in eastern Aleppo on Saturday in an assault on a major government military complex meant to end a month-long siege, insurgents and a monitoring group said. Pro-regime media outlets denied the siege had been broken. The...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai (Zaman al-Wasl)- Their young age did not stop them from joining the revolution and fate decreed the twins Yousef and Abdul Minaem Hilal were killed in one hour; one on the front of Bani Zaid in Aleppo and the other on his way to break the siege on the city with his...

 They could see the fireworks but they have felt no impact from the Olympic Games. Residents of the Mangueira favela or slum, which overlooks the Maracana Stadium where the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony was held, expressed a mix of pride and disappointment as the Games opened in Rio de...