More than 1,100 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside the Syrian capital, the U.N.’s children’s fund UNICEF said Monday. Based on surveys done in recent months, the body said 1,114 children were suffering from various...

 (HRW)- Many Syrian refugees in Arsal, a border town in northeast  Lebanon  recently cleared of armed groups, face pressure to return to Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. Some have already returned to Syria because of the harsh conditions in Arsal.  A recent Human...

Singapore got its first female president Wednesday, but the milestone was overshadowed by criticism that her selection was undemocratic after she was handed the job without a vote. Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the Muslim Malay minority, did not have to face an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees from al-Hadlat-Ruwaished refugee camp appealed to the human rights and humanitarian organizations to rescue them from a catastrophic situation and the inevitable massacres that may be inflicted upon the camp's refugees following an attack on the camp camp in the...