(The Daily Star)- Airstrikes destroyed the only hospital in the rebel-held town of Atareb in the countryside west of Aleppo Monday, wounding several members of the medical staff, war activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war activist group, said warplanes...

Reporting by Elias Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians came to Yemen from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and other cities hoping to find safe refuge far from the brutality of the Assad regime. As many of them said, they came with nothing but their Arab and Levantine identity. Yemen was a favored...

 Iraqi soldiers recaptured the town of Nimrud on Sunday and the nearby ruins of the 3,000-year-old Assyrian city which was overrun and bulldozed two years ago by Islamic State militants. Nimrud, once the capital of an empire stretching across the ancient Middle East, is one of several...

Violence between a persecuted Muslim population and Myanmar security forces escalated over the weekend as two soldiers were killed by crudely armed attackers, according to government officials and Muslim residents. In retaliation, troops of the Buddhist-majority government burned villages deep...