A Syrian-born artist's towering anti-war installation was opened Tuesday in Germany -- three passenger buses placed vertically like an Aleppo sniper barricade -- but the event was marred by heckling far-right protesters. About 100 members of the Islamophobic and anti-immigration PEGIDA...

(New York Times)- Marhaf Homsi was not impressed with the baklava situation in New York. The pastries were too sweet for his taste, and there was often a filler like semolina mixed in with the nuts. The nuts themselves were pulverized and powdery, ruining the texture of the confection....

(The Globe And Mail)- It has been nearly two months since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces captured the besieged city of Aleppo, with support from Russia and Iran, wreaking carnage upon the civilian population and thrusting the Syrian crisis back onto the front pages of newspapers....

(Foreign Policy)- During his first trip to the Pentagon, President Donald Trump gave his generals a month to develop a new plan to defeat the Islamic State. One of the most pressing questions is when and how to take Raqqa, the de facto Islamic State capital in Syria. Left unresolved in the...