Syria

A woman places flowers near the site where children were stabbed on Thursday morning in a playground in the southeastern Alpine town of Annecy, France, taken on 9 June 2023. — AFPFour young children, ages 1 to 3, who were stabbed in a park in Annecy, in the southeast of…

A three-year-old British girl among those stabbed in the French Alps on Thursday was there on holiday. She was among the four children - two aged two, one aged three and a 22-month-old - who suffered "life-threatening injuries" at a playground in Annecy. Two adults were also injured. The suspect,…

A British toddler is one of six injured in a knife attack by a Syrian refugee in south-eastern France. In an apparent lone attack at a playground in Annecy, a town located in the French Alps, a knifeman stabbed four children - aged between 22 months and 3 years -…

A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four young children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps this morning in an attack whose motive remains unclear. The youngest victim in the quiet town of Annecy was just 22 months old. Investigators are trying to understand…

As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday, assaulting at least one in a stroller repeatedly. The children between 22 months and 3 years old suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults also were wounded,…

June 8, 2023 ANKARA — Bringing up the return of Syrian refugees publicly for the first time, Turkey’s National Security Council stressed the need for international support to ensure Syrians’ voluntary return to their home country. Turkey’s National Security Council held its first meeting Thursday after Turkish President Recep Tayyip…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the U.S. would provide nearly $150 million in aid for areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the Islamic State extremist group. He spoke at a ministerial conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on combatting…

A Syrian national wounded four children and an adult in a knife attack in a French park on Thursday, police said, leaving some of the victims critically ill in hospital. The attack, which happened in the French alpine town of Annecy, was carried out by a Syrian national with legal…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that when it comes to defeating the Islamic State militant group, the “fight is not yet done.” Speaking in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the start of a ministerial meeting of the 80-member Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Blinken said the group has…

The aftermath of the deadly earthquake in Antakya, Turkey. Reuters Uğur Gallenkuş is a collage artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. The artist combines stock images of the peaceful West and juxtaposes them with images taken of war-torn countries. Uğur Gallenkuş uses his collages to show "the stark realities of two…