Sectarian violence looms between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq over the renaming of a Sunni mosque by the administration of the Shiite Al-Askari Holy Shrine in the city of Samarra in Saladin governorate, which has a Sunni majority.The Iraqi As...

The number of malnourished children starving in northeastern Syria, an area ravaged by more than a decade of conflict, has risen by 150 percent, aid group Save the Children said Thursday."Every day we have to deal with more malnourished children than...