Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said Wednesday. "Indelible images of individual children -- Aylan Kurdi's small body washed up on a beach after...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top religious authority accused Iran's leaders of not being Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage. The war of words on the eve of the mass pilgrimage will...

(Zaman al-Wasl) In a dark cell in the military security branch in Aleppo the detainee Mohammad Amin Mirat could hear the screams of detained women in the close by cells as they were tortured at the hands of an assistant officer who changed his name as a snake changes its skin, and he remained...

Fighting in Syria's western Hama province displaced an estimated 100,000 people between Aug. 28 and Sept. 5, the United Nations said on Wednesday, citing the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the governor of the province. Syrian rebels launched an offensive last week in northern Hama, an area of...