BEIRUT (AP) — Bashar Assad made a rare visit to the northern province of Aleppo on Friday to inaugurate a power station that was once held by insurgents and suffered wide damages during the war, state media reported. Government-held parts of Syria endure more than 12 hours of power cuts a...

A retired soldier, identified as I.D., had been reportedly raping children in the Al-Qaa area, in Baalbeck governorate, and committing other crimes such as drug trafficking, for more than three years. On Wednesday, June 29, a unit of the army intelligence raided his house and arrested him...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — More than two dozen children have died of hunger in the past two months in a single hospital in Somalia. Dr. Yahye Abdi Garun has watched their emaciated parents stumble in from rural areas gripped by the driest drought in decades. And yet no humanitarian aid arrives....

After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed a key victory: full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. But Moscow’s seizure of the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk province came at a steep price. The...