CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has no plans to provide the United States with direct military assistance in its war against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria even though American aerial bombardment may not be enough to defeat the group, the country's prime minister said....

(AFP)- The stone house has just two rooms, but is now home to five Syrian families who fled the besieged town of Kobane to the relative safety of Turkey just a few kilometres away. The Turkish village of Karaca is just 50 metres from the border. But for the families taking...

(AFP)- Lebanon has all but closed its borders to refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, overwhelmed by an influx of over one million people displaced by fighting, UN and Lebanese officials said Saturday. Quoted by Lebanon's Al-Akhbar newspaper, Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas...

Reporting by Eyad Al Jaafari: Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- It is not unfamiliar to find out that the cashier or the violinist in a restaurant is a Syrian doctor, or an engineer or even a teacher, used to have respectful life in Syria. Unfortunately, as...