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Israel says foiled Hamas kidnap plot

Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that they had arrested three members of Hamas on suspicion of planning to kidnap an Israeli in the West Bank. A statement from domestic security agency Shin Bet named the men as Muad Ashtayeh, born in 1998, Mohammed Ramadan and Ahmed Ramadan, aged...

2.9 million people in Syria are living with disability: WHO

 Dr. Rafif Dayha says that today is a “quiet day” at the Directorate of Disability and Physical Rehabilitation in Damascus, but the building is a hive of activity.  Machines from the prostheses workshop are buzzing, doctors and physiotherapists walk purposefully through...

'This is not a life': migrants stranded on Greek island

Syrian migrant Bashar Wakaa and his heavily pregnant wife are days away from the birth of their third child, stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos in a muddy, garbage-strewn olive grove with no running water or toilets. Nearby, three Syrian men share a flimsy tent designed for two....

How Syria’s First Oscar Contender Eluded the Government

In “Little Gandhi,” a new documentary about the uprising in Syria that began in 2011, two activists are trying to give an interview in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus. With the camera rolling, they pause. There is too much gunfire in the background. “The sniper is about 200 meters away from...