Donors meeting in Kuwait have pledged nearly $2.4bn in humanitarian aid for victims of the Syrian war, which the UN chief says has left half the population in need of urgent help. Millions of Syrians have been driven from their homes as a result of the crisis, now in its...

  A series of bomb attacks on Wednesday targeted areas within the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, police and hospital sources said, according to Agence France-Presse. In...

French president Francois Hollande told key Syrian opposition “not to go to Geneva if there is no ending for Bashar al-Assad’s rule,” Syrian Deputy Chairman of the National Coalition said in a report was sent to some opposition figures and obtained by Zaman Alwasl....

A memorial service was held in a Sydney mosque on Monday for Muslim woman Amira Karroum, and her husband Yusuf Ali who were killed in Syria last week. Amira Karroum, 22, had left her Sydney home in December, telling her family she was headed to Denmark to holiday with...