Syria’s new leader Ahmad Al Shara is planning changes to the rebel-installed government for a more streamlined transition ...

Her youngest son, a barefoot 10-year-old sporting a Spanish national soccer team t-shirt, darts in and out of the tiled porch of their food shop. Outside, where lush palm leaves droop over parked ...

Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells, a small window in the metal doors their only opening to ...