(Los Angeles Times)- He was a committed activist, as well as a “real funny guy,” according to his colleagues on the front lines in northern Syria. To his comrades in arms, he was a good fighter, one who said he feared cameras more than bullets. And to friends at home in Northern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Faten Idris, 6-year-old, was born with paralysis because of lack of oxygen at birth and resulted in loss of speech, too. Due to war and destruction of her family home in al-Mubarakiye village in Homs southern countryside, the family was forced to flee to Lebanon 4 years ago....

The Somali student who wounded 11 people in a car-ramming and knife attack on an Ohio university campus was a "soldier" of the Islamic State group, a jihadist-linked news agency said Tuesday. "The executor of the attack in the American state of Ohio is a soldier of the Islamic State," the...

Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin. Across a hushed capital, dozens of Cubans said they felt genuine pain at...