At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said on Monday. The press freedom group said 19 were killed in Syria alone, followed by 10 in Afghanistan, nine in Mexico and five in Iraq. Almost all of those...

“Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone, with the Assad regime and its allies, Russia and Iran,” President Obama said last week of the barbarity in Aleppo, Syria, “and this blood and these atrocities are on their hands.” My journalism students and I here in Dubai...

Several villages held by ISIS have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organization that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign backed by an...

Bana Alabed, the seven-year-old girl who has been tweeting about life amid the devastation of eastern Aleppo, has been safely evacuated from the city. President of the Syrian American Medical Society Ahmad Tarakji tweeted a picture of Bana, showing her safe and well. The tweet...