Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin. Across a hushed capital, dozens of Cubans said they felt genuine pain at...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed three schools in northern Idlib province, official body said Saturday as air strikes kill 9 people in the southern countryside. The Directorate of Education in rebel-held Idlib said 3 schools in the villages of Kafr Eyn, Maerzeita and...

  Syrian regime forces have retaken "full control" of the rebel-held district of Masaken Hanano in northern battlefield city Aleppo, state media said on Saturday. State television said "the armed forces retook full control" of the largest rebel district in the east of the city, and...

(The Daily Star)- U.S. President Barack Obama offered a "hand of friendship" to Cubans on Saturday after the death of Fidel Castro, while his successor, Republican President-elect Donald Trump gave his first reaction on Twitter, declaring "Fidel Castro is dead!" Trump, who takes office on...