Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon as a U.S. aircraft carrier "strike group" arrived to get supplies moving. While international relief efforts...

Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported...

Amid the increasing gains of Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Aleppo, 6 rebel groups called for an immediate mobilization including al-Qaeda affiliate jabhat al-Nausra and Ahrar al-Sham movement. In a statement issued yesterday the fighting groups urged all rebels to unified under...

  Syrian regime forces have regained control of a brigade in the opposition stronghold of Aleppo after days of fighting, an opposition source said Monday. Salih Anadani, media liaison for the al-Tawhid Brigade armed opposition group, said Syrian leader Bashar...