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DAMASCUS, Syria – Rebels fired a barrage of shells at government-held districts in the northern city of Aleppo Monday, killing at least 23 people, including eight children, and wounding more than 100, state-run TV said. Syrian TV said the shelling hit the area of Rahman Mosque and other districts in …

TRIPOLI, Libya – A report by Human Rights Watch alleges torture and abuse are rampant in prisons under the control of Libya’s internationally recognized government and allied forces in the country’s east. The report released Wednesday claims many detainees were tortured to extract confessions, while others didn’t receive medical care …

This is the third Father’s Day that I have celebrated since my father passed away, and I still miss him. He sacrificed everything for me, my brothers and my mother. Nothing was ever handed to him. He was the first from a family of farmers and factory workers to go …