The Syrian refugee woman huddled in the latest room she calls home, a peeling, run-down place outside a north Lebanese village. The mother of six doesn’t know how she’ll pay the rent. She's gotten by over the past year by taking a series of lovers who would pay for her housing....

(Reuters) - A Gaza ceasefire crumbled only hours after it began on Friday, with at least 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli shelling and Israel accusing militants of violating the U.S.- and U.N.-brokered truce by firing rockets and mortars. The 72-hour break announced by...

A Syrian military defector who leaked thousands of photographs documenting years of torture and death at the hands of the Assad regime briefed the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday, marking his first appearance at a public setting. There are...

World Bulletin - At least 116 people were killed by government forces in fighting across Syria during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, opposition activists have said. The deaths included 21 children and 16 women, according to the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights....