QAA, Lebanon (AP) — Every day around sunset, dozens of residents of this small Lebanese Christian village on the border carry their automatic rifles and deploy on surrounding hills, taking up positions and laying ambushes in case Muslim extremists from neighboring Syria attack....

Uruguay has become the first country in Latin America to offer full resettlement to Syrian refugees seeking safety from the civil war, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).  Around half of a total of 120 Syrian refugees, of which more than 60 percent are children, are...

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(AFP)- Four soldiers and a police officer kidnapped in the east of Lebanon nearly a month ago have been freed by the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. The five "taken hostage by the al-Nusra Front have been freed and have arrived in Arsal," a Lebanese town on the border with Syria, a...