Tens of thousands of Syrians in areas recaptured by government troops this year remain starved of humanitarian aid, with the relief agencies helping them for years now unable to reach them. As towns switched from opposition to regime control, international aid groups were forced to halt their...

Three Israelis were seriously wounded in a shooting on Sunday at an industrial zone for a West Bank settlement, police and medics said, in a possible Palestinian militant attack. Magen David Adom emergency medical services said a man and a woman were evacuated from the Barkan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- There exists, in a country which Bashar al-Assad decided to turn into a private farm and under the control of an army driven by gangster laws, a prison no less cruel and brutal than dozens of other prisons and detention centers.  Zaman al-Wasl puts in the hands of...

   Dinar was lucky to survive the Indonesian quake-tsunami that levelled her home. But she didn't have much time to count her blessings -- she was nine months pregnant and about to give birth in a disaster zone. The 38-year-old confronted a terrifying scene: the city of Palu was...