Much like every morning, Hafis A. was making his way to the restaurant where he used to work. The young  Syrian  man had no idea his life as a refugee in Istanbul was about to change. When Turkish security authorities pulled him over and demanded his papers which had expired two...

“I wish for death,” says Umm Khattab*, a Syrian  refugee  who has called a flimsy tent along the northeast border of  Lebanon  home for years. “We live in constant anxiety and terror. Death has become more merciful than living here.” Her words capture the stark...

ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen's  Houthi rebels launched a boat-borne bomb attack  against a commercial ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. The use of a boat...

Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer. The statement said Asma, 48, would undergo a special treatment protocol that would require her to...