For the second week running, demonstrators have been arrested for defying proscription by holding signs in Parliament Square.

Dubai: 70-year-old Syrian expatriate returned to the halls of Damascus University, four decades after war and political unrest forced him to abandon his education just short of graduation. Mohammad ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq ...

"Returning to Syria endangers my family. Human rights groups confirm it isn’t safe," said the father of three children, aged ...

After 14 years of brutal civil war and more than 7 million displaced, a family finally sets foot in a free Syria. Their return—after fleeing a dictatorship that silenced voices and tore lives apart—is ...

Syria’s wildfires are the first major natural disaster since the country overthrew the al-Assad regime in December.

They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides ...

An influential Shiite cleric was shot dead in central Syria, a conflict monitor said Thursday, with the faith's highest body in the country denouncing his "assassination".

Across the rich world, politicians of the left and the right decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. In May the ...