GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency is warning that the spiraling refugee crisis brought on by Syria's civil war could pose a serious threat to Lebanon's security and destabilize the entire region unless donors quickly provide the unfunded 70 percent of the $3.74...

(Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusar Ahmed) Opposition’s fighting battalions arrested in Jobar front a Syrian young man called Rami al-Sha’ar, from Salihiya neighborhood in Damascus, during his fighting with Aba al-Fadel al-Abbas...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An extremist group's declaration of an Islamic state in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria poses a threat to the entire region, Iraq's prime minister warned Wednesday, saying that "no one in Iraq or any neighboring country will be safe from these plans."...

New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The government Wednesday said the 46 Indian nurses trapped in a building in Iraq's war-torn Tikrit town were safe and unharmed, and the Indian envoy has spoken with them. "Our ambassador (in Iraq) has talked to them. They are unharmed, safe," external...