The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants Monday, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. In desperate scenes, several thousand people, many of them Syrians fleeing war, spent the night on the muddy...

When Uruguay announced last year that it would be taking in five families fleeing Syria's devastating civil war, residents of this small town pulled together and lobbied to host one. Then in November, locals welcomed a newly arrived Merhi Alshebli, his wife and their 15...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) It can be justified for the Syrian intelligence to miss the process of planning and implementing of the operation of Bassam al-Adel when he escaped the country with the MiG-23 fighting airplane in 1989 and landed in Israel.  But what can raise huge question...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Tribes Battalion, key unit of Southern Front rebel group, has detailed circumstances around disappearance of of Captain Hussein al-Ahmad, the only Alawite defector among Free Syrian army in Daraa province. Last Saturday morning Capt. Hussein al-Ahmad was...