Syria's defense minister has announced a ceasefire just hours after government forces entered a key city in the volatile ...

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Leaders once chose rescues over negotiations. But for 50 years, public pressure and new terror tactics have led Israel to pay ever steeper prices — a trend likely to endure The post From raids to ...

Syrian authorities have reportedly arrested the director of an orphanage as they look into the fate of children seized from ...

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The Colombian city’s cultural scene is getting a shake-up, with creative locals whipping up fusion flavours and mixing inventive cocktails that give back to the community.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against humanity and war crimes after he was found guilty ...

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during the war are now seeking information on their fate. NPR investigates.

Up until spring 2011, Almazhan was an ordinary junior officer in the army of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, loyally carrying out orders at military police headquarters in northern Damascus.

Displaced Syrians, one a member of the U.S.-backed Syrian Free Army, light the stove in one of one of hundreds of mud-brick houses that make up the Rukban camp, Dec. 14.