(Reuters) - World Cup favourites Brazil were held to a 0-0 draw by Mexico on Tuesday as goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa produced an inspired performance to deny the Brazilians their 11th victory in a row. In an absorbing Group A match in the deafening cauldron of Fortaleza's...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants captured a strategic northern Iraqi city along the highway to Syria on Monday, sending thousands of residents from an ethnic minority fleeing for safety and moving closer to their goal of linking areas under their control on both sides of the border....

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Alma Shahhod, the well known activist, passed away yesterday after long battle with illness and injuries, in Amman, Jordan. Alma was considered an icon for the Syrian Revolution,...

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — When Lina Safar moved from her native Syria to Florida with her U.S.-born husband in 2010, she assumed she would return occasionally, see her family, walk in her neighborhood and shop at her favorite markets. A year later, her country was engulfed by civil...