​​The Syrian regime continues to detain more than 1,800 Palestinian refugees, including children, women and the elderly, many of whom have been forcibly disappeared.   On the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day, which falls on April 17 of each year, the Action Group for...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pummeled a hulking steel plant that held the last pocket of resistance Sunday in Mariupol, a southern Ukraine city that has suffered under siege for six weeks and whose capture would aid Moscow's plans for a full-scale offensive in the country's east....

DAMASCUS — Hundreds of ceramic doves are suspended over the streets of the Old City of Damascus, part of an art installation that had been set to debut before the start of Syria's war. The lifelike figurines crafted by Buthaina Al Ali, a professor at Damascus University's faculty of arts,...

MYKULYCHI, Ukraine (AP) — This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son's body home for burial. The questions wear her down, heavy like the winter coat and...