The conflict in Syria today reaches another grim milestone. It started with a day of violence 1,000 days ago, it has grown into a war on childhood that has been characterised by more grim milestones than any other in recent history. Over 1,000,000 children have...

An Iraqi freelance cameraman killed in Syria was buried in his hometown city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, with hundreds of fellow journalists attending the ceremony. Yasser Faysal al-Joumaili was executed by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria and is the first foreign journalist killed by...

Twitter is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet. U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with Facebook, will launch...

A top military commander of Hezbollah, which is helping Syrian troops battle rebels, died in fighting Sunday in Syria, a Lebanese security source said. “Ali Bazzi, a high-ranking Hezbollah military commander, was killed today in a combat zone,” the source said without...