World May 27 Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown Elias had a journey full of rejection, protest and finally limited acceptance in a country where homosexuality and dressing as the opposite gender are against the law.
World May 10 Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage The Israeli military said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage in the occupied Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date.
World Apr 30 Missile strikes in Syria kill over a dozen, most of them Iranians A missile attack on government outposts in northern Syria killed more than a dozen pro-government fighters, many of them Iranians, a war monitoring group and an Iranian news agency said Monday. The strikes came amid soaring tensions between regional archenemies…
World Mar 19 European Union criticizes Turkey’s offensive in Syrian town of Afrin The European Union's top diplomat criticized Turkey on Monday over its military offensive in a northern Syrian town, calling on Ankara to ensure that fighting eases in the conflict-torn country.
World Mar 18 Turkey’s forces capture Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin Turkey's president said Sunday that the Turkish military and allied Syrian forces have taken "total" control of the town center of Afrin.
World Feb 28 No civilians exit Syria rebel-held region on day 2 of pause BEIRUT — No civilians exited the rebel-held Syria region near the capital Damascus on Wednesday, the second day of a Russia-ordered brief daily humanitarian pause amid reports of ground battles as government troops attempted to push their way into the…
World Nov 28 ISIS could spread if ‘Americans turn their back’ on Kurdish allies in Syria, official says The comments by Ilham Ahmed, a member of the political arm of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, were in response to the U.S. administration’s suggestion that military aid to the Kurdish-led forces may be halted.
World Feb 25 Twin attacks on Syrian security kill at least 32 In synchronized attacks, insurgents stormed into heavily guarded security offices in Syria's central Homs city, killing a senior officer and at least 31 others.
World Feb 07 Amnesty: Up to 13,000 hanged in Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ The prison north of Damascus was known to detainees as "the slaughterhouse" and in it, as many of 13,000 people were hanged in only four years after a series of sham trials, according to a new report issued by Amnesty…