Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria were expected to imminently declare a federal system, a move likely to further complicate peace talks in Geneva on ending more than five years of war. Russia pulled more warplanes out of Syria, a new delivery of humanitarian aid reached...

Syria's five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, U.N. children's fund UNICEF said on Monday. Its report "No Place for Children" said more than 8 million children in Syria...

Reporting by Fouad Abdulaziz; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad- Zaman Al Wasl)- “Arab Street” in the centre of Berlin, Germany, is situated in one of the poorest areas of the city called Sonnenallee. Once you enter the street, you feel like you have traveled tens of thousands of...

The influential speaker of Lebanon's parliament signaled on Friday that a deal to elect a president was almost ready, raising hopes that a presidential vacuum which has paralyzed the political system for nearly two years could soon be filled. Lebanese newspaper An-nahar cited...