In the  Odessa Steps scene  of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film  “Battleship Potemkin,”  a boy no more than 3 or 4 years old is shot by czarist troops. Bleeding, he falls to the ground, where he is trampled by a frantic crowd fleeing the massacre. His anguished mother...

With his truck fully laden with vegetable oil, driver Mustafa Demir makes his regular trip to the Syrian border from  Turkey  to sell to rebels desperate for provisions as war closes off normal trade channels. "There is so much demand from the Syrian side. There is demand for...

Thousands of refugees from Syria are pouring over the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, the UN refugee agency says.   Up to 10,000 crossed at Peshkhabour on Saturday, bringing the total influx since Thursday to 20,000. The UN says the reasons are not fully clear....

Rebels looking after a mother and her newborn baby in liberated  Alawite part of Lattakia countryside   A mature video footage showed two women from the Alawite part of Lattakia countryside, in Salma village, that fell under the rebels control. One of those women gave...