An aid ship belonging to a German humanitarian group, is still stranded in the Mediterranean and denied safe port from, the organization’s spokeswoman said on Thursday. Denied docking rights from Malta, the Alan Kurdi -- named after a young Syrian boy drowned while trying to make it to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Child Guard’s Network, local civil organization, launched a travelling library project, a first in its kind initiative in the liberated areas, in the town of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, seeking to establish a culture of reading and reading lovers as well as to...

Germany on Thursday backed a UN call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Libya in order to prevent an escalation in the country towards a full-scale civil war.  “UN special envoy Salame has called for a humanitarian ceasefire, and we fully support this,” German Foreign Minister Heiko...

 Syria's Kurds on Thursday announced a deal with Baghdad for 31,000 displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, in camps in northeastern Syria to return home to Iraq. Tens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled enormously during the months-long battle that culminated...