There are more than two months left in 2016, but the number of people who have died this year trying to reach European shores via smuggling routes across the Mediterranean Sea surpassed last year's grim total. A spokesman for the United Nations' refugee agency said Wednesday that 3,800 had died...

(Middle East Eye)- Two Yazidi women who survived a nightmare ordeal of kidnapping, rape and slavery at the hands of Islamic State militants won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize on Thursday. Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar have become figureheads for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime-held western neighborhoods of Aleppo has been empty of young men. Whoever visits the city can notice the phenomenon of women working in commercial stores, restaurants, and small workshops in contrary to what the city was like. The city which was known to be...

Russia on Wednesday expressed reservations about a US proposal to extend a UN investigation of chemical weapons use in Syria for a year after the panel blamed Damascus's forces for three gas attacks. The UN Security Council is to discuss on Thursday a US-drafted measure that would allow the...