French maestro Georges Pretre, who regularly conducted the renowned Vienna Symphony Orchestra, died Wednesday aged 92, the Austrian capital's Philharmonic society said. "The Vienna Philharmonic ... is mourning the passing of its honorary member, Georges Pretre," the world-famous musical...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS is prepared to support Turkish forces battling the fighters in northern Syria, a U.S. military official said Wednesday. Turkey has asked for such assistance from the coalition but none has been forthcoming so far. Colonel John Dorrian, speaking via...

(The Telegraph)- Sitting in her family’s new apartment in Turkey, Fatemah al-Abed still cannot believe they made it out of Aleppo alive.  She had feared government forces would wreak revenge on her and her daughter Bana, the seven-year-old girl whose tweets provided a window for...

Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the Syrian city. In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district,...