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Across wars, exile and a lifetime of displacement, Nour Owiss says one feeling always remained out of reach: belonging.

Syria has reinforced its border with Lebanon with rocket units and thousands of troops, eight Syrian and Lebanese sources said on Tuesday, as conflict spread in the region.

Canada's strained relationship with Iran goes back more than a decade, when a Conservative government under former prime minister Stephen Harper cut diplomatic ties with Tehran.

A senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detainees and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump, as the death toll from the protests rose.

Economic pressure, which has intensified since September when the United Nations reimposed sanctions, has sent Iran's rial currency into a free fall.

U.S. President Donald Trump had vowed to retaliate after an attack on U.S. personnel last weekend in Syria by a suspected Islamic State member.

Ottawa said it has also removed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that led a rebel takeover last year, from its list of terrorist entities under the Criminal Code.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has revoked the designation of a group of Syrian rebels that previously categorized them as a foreign terrorist organization.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the move was designed to 'promote and support the country's path to stability and peace.'

Some Trump administration officials are pushing to lift or waive sanctions as fast as possible without demanding tough conditions first.

A man has been arrested in southeast France in the investigation of a shooting at a Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead, the Paris prosecutor's office said Sunday.

The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution that would authorize cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrians in rebel-held areas in desperate need of food and medicine, without government approval.

Sunni militants captured a key city Monday, as graphic photos were posted that appeared to show fighters massacring Iraqi soldiers.

The Syrian rebels that the U.S. now wants to support are in poor shape, on the retreat from the radical al-Qaida breakaway group

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has documented 7,000 deaths as a result of the rebel-on-rebel violence since it erupted in northern Syria in January.

By declaring the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, ISIS is claiming to be the successor of the political and religious community established by the Prophet Muhammad.

Syrian rebels rampaged through a Sunni village in the central province of Hama Wednesday, firing indiscriminately at civilians and killing 14 people.

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's government and rebels traded accusations of a chemical attack Tuesday on a northern village near Aleppo. However a U.S. official said there was no evidence of any such attack.

A U.S.-based rights group on Thursday accused Syria of war crimes by indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians, killing at least 4,300 people since last summer.

Insurgents launched what appeared to be a highly co-ordinated string of attacks across Iraq on Monday morning, killing at least 32 and wounding more than 200, according to officials.