(Middle East Eye)- Sasha Naffaa knows how lonely it can be to leave your friends behind when you move to a new country. That’s why the fourth grader hopes a stuffed animal, designed specifically to welcome Syrian refugee children to Canada, can help ease their difficult transition....

Reporting by Faris al-Refai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated a tragic story a Syrian paramedic who had been shocked to find his three children among the aerial bombing casualties after being transferred to the hospital of Maer Tmasrin in northern Idlib province on Tuesday.  The...

(Sky News)- Syria's Bashar al Assad has rejected pleas from rebel fighters in Aleppo for a truce. The president said victory in the battle-ravaged city would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's five-year civil war. He was speaking after a fierce three-week offensive in which...

A Pakistani aircraft carrying 47 people issued a Mayday call before losing radar contact and crashing into a mountain, killing everyone on board, authorities said, as they began collecting DNA Thursday to identify victims. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight smashed into a...