Walking through the streets of Gaziantep, Turkey, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a 9-year-old Syrian refugee girl, called 'Little Amal', attracts the attention of passersby. Towering over crowds, it's the beginning of a transcontinental trip that organisers hope will bring awareness to the...

Displaced civilians living in camps in northwestern Syria are struggling with above-average temperatures in makeshift tents. In Idlib province, where hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced as a result of intense attacks by the Assad regime, the temperature exceeding 40 degrees...

 A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity for allegedly torturing people in military hospitals in his homeland and killing one of them, German federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe said in a statement that...

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo reported 3,177 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, setting an all-time high and exceeding 3,000 for the first time days after the start of the Olympics. The new cases exceeded the earlier record of 2,848 set the previous day and brought the total for the Japanese capital...