Activists have circulated a photo on the internet for three sisters' children, who were victims of their father's dream of immigration to be face to face with sea darkness and human traffickers .   The Palestinian refugee Hussein Salameh, who fled from...

 An activist group says Syrian warplanes have been bombing the suburbs of Damascus while rebels have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday. Tuesday’s fighting shows how entrenched both sides in Syria’s civil war have become. Earlier...

  An explosion targeting a crowd of worshippers on Tuesday, as they left a mosque in Iraq after prayers marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, killed 12 people, police and medical sources told Agence France-Presse. The blast at a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk,...

Syria’s first lady Asma al-Assad laughed off claims she has fled the war-hit country in footage broadcast on Tuesday, saying she was standing by her embattled husband President Bashar al-Assad. The British-educated Asma has rarely appeared in public since the beginning of the conflict...