The Syrian government will distribute free chickens and feed to farmers to support rural areas ravaged by years of conflict, an agriculture ministry official told AFP on Tuesday. A cabinet statement said 1 billion Syrian pounds ($2.3 million) has been allocated to the initiative, which aims...

Clashes between pro-regime forces and extremist-led groups that control Syria's northwest killed at least 45 combatants Tuesday, a war monitor said. The fighting flared on the edge of Hama province when Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Nusra Front) launched a dawn attack on regime...

Syria does not want to see fighting with Turkey, its foreign minister said Tuesday, after Turkey said one of its posts in Syria's Idlib region was attacked from an area controlled by Syrian government forces. Russia, which supports Syrian President Bashar Assad in his country's civil war,...

Egypt's former President Mohamed Morsi was buried on Tuesday in eastern Cairo, his son said, a day after he collapsed in court and died shortly after. Morsi was buried early in the morning alongside other senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, his son, Ahmed Morsi, said on his...