(Reuters) - Deutsche Bank ( DBKGn.DE ) launched plans to raise 8 billion euros ($11 billion) in new capital on Sunday with the Qatari royal family a major new investor, in a bid by Germany's largest bank to end questions about its capital strength. The bank had already raised...

BEIRUT (AP) — He began as a local hero on the soccer field, playing for the most popular team of his home city Homs and rising toward national stardom across Syria. But when the uprising against President Bashar Assad began, Abdelbasit Sarout left all of it to lead peaceful...

MARJ EL-KHOKH, Lebanon, (UNHCR) – In the back room of the large home-made tent, Yousra is being made up and having her hair arranged. It will take all afternoon. In the front room her women friends are dancing. At the end of the day, a wedding ceremony will take place in the...

Translation by Dani Murad In a move that aims to stop the fighting between ISIL and FSA army and other Islamic battalions, a delegation from the people of Deir ez-Zor met the leaders of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Thursday....