Israel scrambled Saturday to contain the fallout from the UN Security Council vote to halt settlements in Palestinian territory after lashing out at US President Barack Obama over the "shameful" resolution. The council passed the measure Friday after the United States abstained, enabling the...

Germany was hunting for possible accomplices of the suspected Berlin truck attacker Saturday, a day after he was killed in a shoot-out with Italian police in Milan. As most of the country readied to celebrate Christmas Eve, Germany's under-pressure authorities said hundreds of investigators...

South Africans have pledged over 13 million rand (approximately $928,000) to assist with humanitarian efforts in Syria, a spokesman for a local NGO behind the initiative has told Anadolu Agency.  Yusuf Abramjee, spokesman for the NGO OperationSA, said telephone pledge lines were made by...

(Toronto Life)- When Jim Estill decided to sponsor 50 Syrian refugee families, he didn’t tell anyone about it at first—not his accountant, not his friends, not even his wife. It was the summer of 2015, and the death toll in Syria had reached a quarter of a million people, while another four...