An Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others on Friday at a popular seaside vacation spot on the Red Sea, after apparently searching out foreigners to attack, officials and witnesses said. The knifeman killed the two German women and wounded two other tourists...

( The Guardian )- When they still lived back home in Derik, northern Syria, Silva Hassan Namo and her family would gather each evening around the television to watch the latest episodes of their favourite Mexican telenovelas. Even after civil war forced them to flee to Iraq, the family would...

They left their homes to escape the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and now they are going back. Worn out from months of living in tents, about 150 Syrian families decided this week to return to the city of Homs – even if it meant going back to a life under Assad’s rule. Their...

In four years, Mohammad al-Hassan only heard his son’s voice once: when the young Syrian soldier called a radio show to send regards to his family trapped in militant bastion Raqqa. The 62-year-old and his wife Nazira, who never left their hometown in northern Syria during years of Daesh...