When Abu Ahmad stepped out of his house in Raqqa after a night of heavy airstrikes, he found several of his neighbors lying dead in the street. “I went out the next morning just to inspect,” he said. “I swear to God, cats were eating the corpses.” “We couldn’t do anything with...

( The Guardian )- The top ethics watchdog in the federal government announced his resignation on Thursday, taking a parting shot at Donald Trump as he did so. Walter Shaub, head of the independent Office of Government Ethics (OGE), released a statement in which he said he would step down in...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sought Thursday to steer rival sides in Cyprus peace talks to agreement on a broad range of issues that are holding back a deal to reunify the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. Appearing for the second time at the peace talks taking place...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's human rights minister called on Thursday for an inquiry into the controversial deaths of a number of Syrians while in the custody of the Lebanese army. "To preserve the army's image and prevent any rumors that may be malicious, we ask the relevant leadership...