MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain prepared to impose direct rule in Catalonia on Friday, an unprecedented step that risks sparking unrest with secessionists calling on the Catalan parliament to make a defiant declaration of independence. The upper house of Spain’s parliament - the Senate -...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces are responsible for a deadly sarin gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun that killed scores of people, a UN investigative panel said Thursday. The joint UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) panel said in a...

BAGHDAD/LONDON (Reuters) - When the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shi‘ite militia entered a key oil processing facility in Iraq’s north to retake it from Kurdish Peshmerga forces last week, the installation was deserted and its alarm bells ringing. Engineers and workers on the...

(The Daily Mail)- Tragic photos of a  Syrian  infant suffering from severe malnutrition have shown the grave consequences of the battle against  ISIS  that has forced thousands from their homes. The child was treated by a nurse at a clinic in the rebel-controlled...