At least 31 people were killed Monday in barrel bomb attacks in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group: Some of the wounded were in a serious condition after the strikes on the Sukkari and Ashrafiyeh neighbourhoods, the Syrian Observatory for...

Some 150,000 Israelis and foreigners took part in the 16th annual gay pride march through the streets of Tel Aviv on June 13, according to a statement from city hall. This stands in dramatic contrast to the decision by the United Nations General Assembly to choose Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed reports that forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime had “rained barrels bombs on Aleppo” over the course of the day, part of what the wire described as “a campaign against rebels in the northern city where dozens have been killed this week”: The use of...

The death toll in Syrian conflict has risen to roughly 162,000 people, amid hints from White House officials and from President Barack Obama himself that Washington may be contemplating taking firmer action to influence the direction of the over three-year conflict: The death toll in the three-year Syrian conflict has risen...

TIME Magazine’s chief foreign affairs correspondent Michael Crowley on Friday assessed that the policy debate in Washington over how to approach the Syrian war may soon shift back to “talk of military action,” as Obama administration officials “brac[ed] for confirmation – in weeks or even days – that chemical warfare...

Far-Right parties celebrated a massive night of victories following sweeping gains in European Union elections. A mix of anti-immigration, anti-EU-integration, and neo-Nazi parties took seats away from the traditional centrist parties in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Austria and elsewhere. Europe’s voters lurched towards the political fringes on...