A Turkish aid agency delivered 39,000 packs of humanitarian aid to Syrians, an official said Thursday. “Within the scope of holy month of Ramadan, we sent 39,000 iftar [fast-breaking] packs to be delivered to various regions of Syria,” Hasan Huseyin Uysal, who heads the Humanitarian...

Syrian security officers hung Muhannad Ghabbash from his wrists for hours, beat him bloody, shocked him with electricity and stuck a gun in his mouth. Mr. Ghabbash, a law student from Aleppo, repeatedly confessed his actual offense: organizing peaceful antigovernment protests. But the...

The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria are to file a lawsuit Monday at Europe's top rights court over France's refusal to allow them home, lawyers said. It is the latest challenge to the French government's opposition to...

Rockets from Gaza killed three people in an Israeli city while five Palestinian militants died on Sunday in surging cross-border fighting that included a return by Israel to singling out enemy commanders for attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the military to...