(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...

LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, France (AP) — On the day she left for Syria, Sahra strode along the train platform with two bulky schoolbags slung over her shoulder. In a grainy image caught on security camera, the French teen tucks her hair into a headscarf. Just two months earlier and a...

Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj by about 1.4 million believers from around the world reached its zenith on a vast plain in western Saudi Arabia Friday. "I am now a newborn baby and I don't have any sin," Nigerian pilgrim Taofik Odunewu told AFP,...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off as screaming parents frantically searched for their sons and daughters in a street littered with school...