Desperate to escape Syria’s terrors, Ammar Maarawi bolted. In early 2016, he paid smugglers and endured a dangerous sea crossing to Greece and an exhausting journey by train, bus and foot through Europe. Two years later, the 36-year-old is back home in Aleppo. He returned last summer...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Several plastic mannequins appeared on window shops in the town of Atareb in northern Aleppo province. The faces were marked by red and blue to show bruises.  They wrote statements next to the mannequins encouraging men to treat women...

At least five people were killed after two army helicopters crashed near a lake in southern France, investigators said Friday. A rescue operation was under way to find the sixth passenger after the crash about 50 kilometres northwest of Saint-Tropez, the circumstances of which...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tunisia Wednesday on a visit intended to "support the democratic transition" of a country still battered by economic stagnation and social unrest seven years after its revolution. His visit comes after several hundred people were...