POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter combat Sunday in an eastern Ukrainian city as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain a strategic foothold to conquer the region. Ukraine's leader made a rare frontline...

The Assistant Minister of Higher Education for Scientific Affairs said that according to the data in the medical unions, more than 30 percent of the medical team has emigrated outside the war-torn country over the past 11 years.  Dr. Fadia Deeb revealed that the unprecedented shortage...

The denial of access for humanitarian efforts during armed conflicts is reinforcing a vicious cycle of killings and forced displacements, the US warned on Wednesday. The result of this can be seen in Syria where, after 11 years of the “Assad regime’s brutal war,” 14 million people rely...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Monday to launch a new military operation in Syria to secure Turkey's southern border. Speaking following a Cabinet meeting, Erdogan said the aim of the operation would be resume Turkish efforts to create a 30-kilometer (20 mile) safe zone...