At least 250,000 Syrian children are living under siege, with many forced to eat animal feed or leaves to survive, Save the Children said Wednesday, as the war's fifth anniversary looms. "They and their families are cut off from the outside world, surrounded by warring groups that illegally use...

Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya returned to Italy Sunday to a mute homecoming, amid questions over why two others snatched with them were killed. Gino Pollicardo, 55, and Filippo Calcagno, 65, were met by relieved relatives at Rome's Ciampino airport in the early hours and...

  (BBC)- The Russian air force has been accused of indiscriminate bombing. The human rights group Amnesty International says it has "compelling evidence" that Russian and Syrian government forces had "deliberately and systematically targeted hospitals and other medical...

A woman suspected of beheading a child in her care before brandishing the severed head outside a Moscow metro station has said she acted to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria. In video footage posted online on Thursday and circulated by...