Turkey said Wednesday it launched deadly strikes against Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria, where Kurd forces have been left reeling from the largest Islamic State group attack in nearly three years. The raids on Tuesday night targeted shelters, tunnels, caves, ammunition depots,...

At Hammam Bakri in Damascus' Old City, Syrian men wrapped in towels from the waist down lie down on a scalding marble floor. Masseurs vigorously scrub their skin with a soap-soaked loofah and wash them down with hot water. Around a hexagonal fountain outside — traditionally found in old...

Two children died overnight, including a seven-day-old baby, in tented displacement camps in Syria’s Idlib province due to severe cold weather, drawing attention to the dire humanitarian condition in the region. “When I touched her, she felt like ice,” Mohamad Al-Hassan told Al...

The Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States said Tuesday that Pope Francis would like to visit Lebanon "soon" amid the country's crippling economic crisis. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher spoke after a meeting with President Michel Aoun who thanked the Vatican for supporting Lebanon....