When Jaafar's grandmother recognized him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria's civil war, she held him tight, screaming for joy. The story of how Hajar Saleh, a 47-year-old nurse, spent fraught weeks tracing her grandson in a foreign...

South Korea's Lotte Group will continue to invest in its China business despite diplomatic tensions over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, a Lotte executive said Monday, denying rumors it wants to scale back there. Chinese authorities closed dozens of Lotte retail stores...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia arrested around 30 civilians in major conscription campaign in Hasaka province after they objected to their children being conscripted by force into the militias subordinate to the Democratic Union Party. According to local sources, the Democratic...

The annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race will proceed as planned Sunday after police removed an unexploded World War II-era bomb found near the start of the race on the River Thames. The bomb was discovered by a member of the public near Putney Bridge in southwest London, just meters (yards)...