PARIS - French authorities announced Saturday that children six and older will have to wear masks in indoor places open to the public as new cases of the highly contagious omicron variant surge past 200.000 for the fourth consecutive day. By lowering the age of children obligated to wear...

400 migrants disembarked at the southern Italian port of Pozzallo on Saturday, after rescued by the German charity Sea Watch over the past week. The crew picked up a total of 446 people in five separate operations, but several were evacuated for medical treatment while waiting for the...

Two children and a woman have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, an opposition-held area where a truce is supposed to be in place. Sources in the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) said that three civilians, including a woman...

The war in Syria marked its ten-year anniversary in 2021, another grim milestone for the country that appears marching onward into terminal decline. While levels of violence in 2020 remained relatively low compared to other years, for many in Syria the situation is as grim as ever....