(Daily Mail)- For years, Abboud Jan's gun repair shop in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh catered exclusively to local hunters, but the country's devastating six-year war has changed all that. "We used to repair just hunting weapons, but things have changed with the crisis," says the...

The family of an Italian graduate student tortured to death in Egypt is urging Pope Francis to seek information about the case during his upcoming visit to Cairo. The parents of Giulio Regeni made the appeal Monday at the Italian Senate on the same day the Vatican released details of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A high-ranking Syrian official told fellow Lebanese officials that the regime sees Syria's real population as 12 million people, ignoring 12 more million live abroad on the borders and neighborhood countries, a Lebanese daily said Monday. The official supposedly continued...

An explosion in the St Petersburg metro system Monday has killed at least 10 people, according to "preliminary information," Russian news agency TASS reported. A Reuters witness saw eight ambulances near the Sennaya Ploshchad metro station. Another agency, RIA Novosti, said there...