BEIRUT: One of the few remaining hospitals in rebel-held Aleppo will be forced to close its doors at the end of the month, after a major international NGO unexpectedly withdrew funding for the facility, leaving half a million people with access to only rudimentary field...

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Saturday ordered with "the absolute urgency", the expulsion of a Tunisian man accused of recruiting young French nationals to join fighting in Syria. Following "the threat that his presence posed to public safety and security of the state,"...

  Nine top officers from the moderate Free Syrian Army resigned Saturday over shortages and mismanagement of military aid from donor countries to their uprising against President Bashar Assad. "We seek your (the rebels') forgiveness in...

Pro-Russian separatists shot down an army transport plane in east Ukraine on Saturday, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to defeat the rebels and hold the country together. President Petro Poroshenko summoned his security chiefs for consultations and...