A summit of seven European Union member states on the Mediterranean due to take place Thursday will push for a common EU position regarding Turkey, said French President Emmanuel Macron, host of the gathering. Relations between the EU and Turkey are badly strained on a number of issues,...

In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. "We're the last family to be working in glass blowing in Damascus. I'm scared the profession will disappear," said...

  Anwar Almojarkesh, like many students around the world, found getting up in the morning difficult. However, instead of hitting the snooze button, Anwar began to develop a solution, one that has led to him to a remarkable career as an entrepreneur, helped along the way by...

Waves of soldiers marching in double time open the new documentary by Gianfranco Rosi at the Venice film festival, but the Italian filmmaker's aim is not to depict war, but those caught in the crossfire. Whether mothers mourning sons killed in prison, children drawing in crayon the horrors...