As winter sets in, Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war have no other option but to burn their clothes to stay warm in the camps. In the northwestern province of Idlib, where most internally displaced Syrian reside, strong winds have uprooted many tents. At night, the children get...

Jawdat Said, a non-violent Syrian Islamic thinker and author who opposed the fanaticism of some of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideologues, died in exile in Istanbul on Sunday. He was 90. His death leaves a centrist gap in a fragmented Syria, with the country divided between the...

A total of 562 children recruited by Houthi rebels were killed in fighting in war-torn Yemen last year, a UN report found. The report prepared by UN experts said 562 children aged between 10 and 17 years old died in the battlefield in the period between January and May 2021. “In one...

Iraqi airstrikes killed nine suspected Islamic State fighters, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an IS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday. IS gunmen in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on...