After a devastating fuel tanker explosion in the northern village of Tleil killed 33 people and left nearly 80 wounded, Lebanese hospitals across the country opened their doors to patients. The northern village and the rest of Akkar province is one of the country’s poorest, and...

With hundreds of Afghans rushing the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport desperate to flee the return of the Taliban, a young Afghan woman stood in limbo between two worlds. In one world, Massouma Tajik would board a flight to a country she did not know, destined to become a refugee....

The leader of the Syrian Islamist extremist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has said that his organization should enter areas controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian militias and form a "united administration". During a meeting with displaced Syrians in rebel-held Idlib province, where HTS is...

A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders. The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on...