Iraqi Kurdistan has asked oil companies operating in the autonomous region for $50 million to help deal with an influx of refugees from  Syria  that has put a strain on its resources. Around 200,000 refugees, many of them from Syria's own Kurdish minority, have poured into the...

In the  Odessa Steps scene  of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film  “Battleship Potemkin,”  a boy no more than 3 or 4 years old is shot by czarist troops. Bleeding, he falls to the ground, where he is trampled by a frantic crowd fleeing the massacre. His anguished mother...

The United States and Russia on Saturday agreed on an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year. In a landmark deal thrashed out in talks spanning three days, the two powers gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a week to hand over the details and...

    'They thought it was an American Aid mission, the Mission flag, which was looming, seemed likely of the United States, where the Jihadists didn't recognize that it was the Malaysian flag, though, Abo Obeida was killed in an unintentionally mistake, leader in...