Seated at his desk at a suburban San Diego middle school, 12-year-old Abdulhamid Ashehneh tries not to let his mind wander to the painful memories of his life in civil war-torn Syria. His father ...

NAKHLE, Lebanon – Crouching inside a small tent in a hilltop olive grove in northern Lebanon, Jassem works his hand puppets and sings rhymes in a falsetto voice about landmarks in his native Syria.

Having lain empty and silent since it was occupied and then abandoned during Lebanon’s civil war, the halls of this large school by the sea near the town of Sidon are once more filled with playful ...

In a small apartment outside Minneapolis, I'm watching two brown-haired brothers, ages 7 and 9, on a couch playing chess. They're speaking Arabic sprinkled with English. They stare intently at the ...

In the rolling hills of southern Idlib, once a fierce front line of Syria’s civil war, life is cautiously returning. Families long scattered by ...

A U.N. investigation concluded Monday that Syrian forces committed crimes against humanity by killing and torturing hundreds of children, including a 2-year-old girl reportedly shot to death so she ...

The University of Arizona's Arizona Center for Judaic Studies will sponsor a bake sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14. on the east side of the Louise Foucar Marshall building, 845 N. Park Ave. The ...

Residents in southern Idlib are returning to their villages after years of exile. Repairing schools is crucial for the displaced, but many remain destroyed nearly a year after former President ...

Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp.... Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a ...