(The Guardian)- Bana al-Abed, the seven-year-old girl whose tweets from Aleppo gave devastating insights into the Syrian war, has pleaded with Donald Trump to “do something for the children of Syria” in an open letter. Bana amassed hundreds of thousands of followers for her messages...

A Syrian family of pastry chefs, the Sakkas, once delighted the people of Homs with their sugar-soaked Levantine delicacies, until a rain of bombs turned them into refugees. Now, after a four-year odyssey, they have reopened the family's sweet-tooth haven in Berlin, a baklava shop called the...

(Daily Mail)- President Donald Trump will begin rolling out executive actions on immigration Wednesday, beginning with steps to tighten border security - including his proposed wall along the US-Mexico border.  The president is also expected to take action over the next few days to...

A suspected suicide car bomb rammed into the gate of a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu Wednesday and militants stormed inside, police and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports about casualties and no immediate claim of responsibility. The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab...