Pau Gasol, National Basketball Association (NBA) champion and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ), has wrapped up a visit to Iraq by urging additional support for the hundreds of thousands of Syrian children forced out of their homeland by conflict. “I met children...

The wife of a slain Syrian political analyst and ardent supporter of President Bashar al-Assad was charged in Lebanon on Wednesday with incitement to murder, a judicial source told AFP. Siham Younis’s brother was indicted on the same charge, while her nephew was charged with the murder of...

The lawless conflict in Syria is rekindling dangers -- from disease to forms of political violence -- that have been dormant for decades, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union's Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid, and Crisis Response, told  FP  on Monday....

  Al Qaeda-linked fighters in the rebel-held eastern Syrian city of Raqqa on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said to Reuters. Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped ...