Harrowing new photographs of Syrian detainees being tortured in Aleppo Central Prison were released on Sunday by a defecting military photographer. The photos were exclusively obtained by the Syrian news daily, Zaman Al-Wasl, where gruesome pictures showed the abuse that prisoners were...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The story about high fuel prices was safe, editors agreed, even under the strict press laws of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, it unleashed a firestorm at Al Roeya newspaper in Dubai. Within days, top editors were interrogated. Within weeks, dozens of...

Six Syrian refugees, including two infants and a child, have been found dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. “They died of thirst, hunger and severe burns. This is unacceptable,” the UNHCR’s...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Among the boarded-up windows and blast-scarred buildings of Ukraine’s second-largest city, where Russian missiles and rockets strike during the day and the night, fear forms the backdrop of life. As Ukrainian forces advance in their counteroffensive in the Kharkiv...