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Families seek repatriation of Moroccans held in Syria

Members of the national coordination of families of Moroccans detained and stranded in Syria and Iraq, held a demonstration to demand their repatriation, in front of the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat. Most of those stranded are accused of traveling to join the Islamic State (IS) group....

UN: $39 million needed for Syrians in northwest this winter

 Heavy snow and freezing rain have seriously affected about 250,000 displaced Syrians living in camps in the last major opposition stronghold in northwestern Syria, with tents collapsing and children having to walk in the snow in sandals, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said Monday....

Syria Kurdish forces close in on IS-controlled prison wing

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters deployed inside a prison in northeast Syria on Monday, closing in on the facility’s last wing controlled by militants for days, the force and a war monitor said. The raid follows the surrender of hundreds of Islamic State fighters and aims to...