A car bomb exploded outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad just after midnight Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding 24, hospital and police officials said. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which Iraqi officials said involved apparently remotely detonated explosives...

(The Washington Post )- They came from every corner of Syria: people who fled fighting but could not afford smugglers’ fees to go farther. Now nearly 1 million are packed into one province in Syria’s northwest, eyeing a weeks-old cease-fire there with trepidation, fear and mistrust....

By Tareq Haj Bakri (Eqtsad) Syrian refugees have introduced foreign customs into Turkish commercial practices regarding residential and commercial rental contracts. These practices have a negative effect on Syrians in Turkey, and were exploited by opportunistic brokers and...

The sound of the blast in Syria’s capital Damascus brought worried residents running, but rather than carnage they found a crew filming one of the country’s famed television drama series. Moments before, director Rasha Sharbatgi had been wielding her loudhailer, calling for silence...