Turkey appeared to toughen its stance in talks to reunify Cyprus by insisting Tuesday that it won't sign up to any deal involving the withdrawal of all its troops from the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. At talks to end Cyprus' 43-year ethnic divide at the Swiss ski resort of...

( The Guardian )- When the Syrian uprising began as a series of peaceful protests in 2011 Yahia and Maen Shorbaji helped to coordinate demonstrations. The two brothers lived in a suburb of Damascus with their parents, four other brothers and sister, Bayan. It wasn’t long before the...

When builder Abu Salem repairs a shell hole in a house in rebel-held southern Syria, he knows it might not be the last job he does on the structure. "There is a chance the buildings will be hit again," he told Reuters. "But in the short term people should be able to take refuge in their...

More than 100,000 migrants and refugees have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the year, and 2,247 have died trying, the U.N. said Tuesday. Between January 1 and July 3, more than 85,000 migrants landed in Italy, nearly 9,300 arrived in...