Homesickness is a growing social challenge for thousands of displaced Syrians who had no choice but to flee their homes and find ways to express their feelings of loneliness and isolation. Farah who’s so proud of her new tattoo, wrote the word “Damascus” in Arabic on her...

The search area for a missing Malaysian jetliner in remote seas off  Australia  was widened on Monday after French satellite images revealed potential "floating debris" several hundred kilometers north of pictures previously captured by U.S. and Chinese satellites....

Rifts over foreign policy will likely make it harder for Arab leaders meeting at a summit this week to forge a common stand on regional challenges, including what many of them see as a threat from Iranian-U.S. rapprochement. And while the Arab League meeting may agree more humanitarian...

From the Lebanese border town of Arsal, you can see the smoke as  Syria n government warplanes bomb rebel positions across the frontier. But its problems are even closer. Arsal is Sunni Muslim and the neighbouring town of al-Labwa is Shi'ite. Their fate shows just how dangerous...