A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps. The girl,...

 As rescue efforts in the Mediterranean Sea flagged last week, and bodies were found more frequently than survivors from among the more than 500 people missing after an overcrowded fishing trawler sank, the European Commission's president was asked for her thoughts. “It is horrible,...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Monday reiterated his position on protecting the Palestinian people and cause against conspiracies. Speaking before Jordanian officials, King Abdullah said that Jordan will continue to stand by the Palestinians to help and protect them and to work against the...

New direct links between the multi-billion dollar Captagon drug trade and leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and President Bashar al-Assad's family have been revealed in a joint investigation by BBC News Arabic and the investigative journalism network OCCRP. Captagon is a highly...