“There are thousands of other Afghans who have been serving America and American people without threatening U.S. security,” said one Afghan professor.

It’s unclear whether German lawmakers’ decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide will affect the EU-Turkey refugee deal.

Some 50,000 Iraqis have waning medicine and food reserves and no way to safely flee the city, aid groups say.

Heads of state from some of the world’s richest and most powerful countries were nowhere to be seen.

Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo

The delivery comes just one week after an international aid convoy failed to reach desperate Syrians living in a nearby besieged city.