On Thursday, news circulated that scores of insurgents had been killed in a failed operation in Homs city in central Syria On Friday morning, the death toll was put at 65, but it was still unclear — how and why had these men died? Rose al-Homsi...

  Lugging three plastic sacks full of clothes, Abu Mohammed and his three daughters pulled back the wrought iron border crossing gate, stepped through it into Turkey and smiled. As one daughter wept tears of relief, her father recounted their 12-hour journey from...

Egypt's army chief has indicated that he may run for president in elections slated for later this year, according to state media. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led a military coup last July to depose the country's first democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, said on Saturday...

Over the past two years, Hussein witnessed the horrors of war in his hometown of Damascus. But the most frightening moment of his life did not come in Syria. Rather, it was during a stormy night in the Mediterranean Sea, when the small fishing boat carrying him and 15 other Syrians...