Hand-in-hand with locals, Syrian women who took shelter in a Turkish border city are taking back their lives through making natural soap with support from a nonprofit group. “Friendship is universal, something human, and has nothing to do with language,” said Zainab, 40, who fled...

It's one of the iconic images of Lebanon's protests: the tears of a soldier torn between his duty and a loving crowd -- the same dilemma now facing the national army. An unprecedented, cross-sectarian protest movement demanding the removal of an entrenched political elite has paralysed the...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be investigated and indicted for war crimes over his country's military offensive in Syria, former prosecutor and U.N. investigator Carla del Ponte said in an interview published Saturday. Del Ponte, a former member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on...

Syrian troops reached a key area near Turkey's border Saturday after sending further reinforcements to the region, in what a war monitor said was its largest deployment there in years. Syrian regime forces entered the provincial borders of the town of Ras al-Ain, state news agency SANA...