Syria's prime minister arrived in Tehran Friday for talks with the leaders of close ally Iran ahead of a peace conference aimed at ending his country's civil war , the state broadcaster reported. During his three-day stay, Wael al-Halqi will meet President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign...

White tents with "The U.N. Refugee Agency" written on them flap in the wind outside the Lebanese mountain town of Arsal. Children run past latrines and water points. In all respects, it is a refugee camp, but you must not call it that, say officials. The site is home to about 350...

Syrian activists posted online  footage  of anew chemical weapons attack Thursday, September 28 by Bashar al-Assad army on the suburb of Jobar near Damascus. ''At 4:00 a.m. this morning 8 cases of suffocation with some form of toxic gas were registered in the...

Syrian refugee children are paying a cruel price as civil war rips their country apart, the United Nations warned Friday in a report with heart-rending testimony from youngsters driven from their homes. "This is impossible to forget. It's like someone has stabbed me with a knife when I...