Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party’s grip on power. It will be the fourth election to Syria’s largely rubber-stamp parliament since civil...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday stressed the importance of efforts for peace in neighboring Syria, urging all peace advocates to support this pivotal call. “We want peace in Syria, and we expect everyone who stands for peace to support this historic call,” Erdogan told...

Sweden announced on Tuesday it would toughen up family reunification rules and potentially expand DNA testing in an effort to slash immigration. The Swedish government vowed to harden eligibility criteria like income that allow foreign nationals to join relatives residing in Sweden....

Hussein al-Naasan struggles to provide water for his family in the scorching summer, as aid funds have dried up and conditions deteriorated in impoverished displacement camps in Syria’s northwest. “Water is life, it is everything... and now we are being deprived of water,” Naasan told...