JERUSALEM  Palestinians activists have called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release six hunger-striking prisoners, who have been held for months in Palestinian prisons without charge.  Protesters gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, according to...

Syrian government forces and their allies recaptured areas in southwestern Aleppo on Sunday that rebels had seized last month and laid siege to the city's opposition-held eastern sector for a second time since July, rebels and monitors said. The areas recaptured, after weeks of bombardment...

Syrian regime troops on Sunday seized a military academy south of Aleppo city, once again encircling the rebel-held districts in the east and placing them under siege, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said government forces backed by Syrian and...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death. Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for...