In January, Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee will start work on what they're calling "the largest childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response." Funded by a $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the project aims to reach 9.4 million Syrian...

An Iranian official said Friday that 52 people had been arrested at protests the previous day in Mashhad as the government suggested hardline opponents may have been behind the unrest. Reformist media said hundreds had taken to the streets of Mashhad and other towns on Thursday in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 300 Islamist fighters will leave the last Sunni-rebel held bastion near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights due to a new evacuation deal reached with the regime army near the capital, local activists and monitoring group said. A convoy of 'green' buses has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias took a strategic village near at the foothills of Mount Hermon near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights border, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. Taking Mugher al-Meer village make the army and...