CARE: “Mothers last ones to eat, children first ones to freeze” Syrians, fleeing over a decade of war in their homeland, have found their situation exacerbated following the onslaught of heavy winter storms. In Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, temperatures are expected to drop lower than they...

Poland’s Border Guard authorities say that almost 600 attempts by migrants at illegally crossing the border from Belarus have been foiled so far this year. The attempts have continued since their peak in the fall, but the number of registered tries has dropped significantly, to dozens a...

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services said Monday that he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff, crediting past security training for getting himself and his...

Koblenz, Germany – When former Syrian colonel Anwar Raslan was sentenced to life in a German prison last week, many hailed the decision as historic. The Syrian defector was found guilty of complicity in 4,000 cases of torture, at least 27 deaths and of physical and sexual assaults, while...