Bilateral relations and new chances for collaboration were on the agenda as Azerbaijan’s president received Iran’s foreign minister in the capital Baku on Monday. Azerbaijan is “very satisfied” with the cooperation level between the two countries, Ilham Aliyev said, recalling that there...

ALEPPO — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has seemingly come a long way in seizing control over Idlib and aspires to expand that control at the Turkish-backed opposition's expense in northwestern Syria. Since early 2019 and after battling Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions, HTS has directed its attention...

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund plans to double its assets to 4 trillion riyals ($1.07 trillion) by 2025, Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Sunday, a move that would make it one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds. The fund would invest 3 trillion riyals in new sectors over...

A new, 5,000 Syrian Lira bank note goes into circulation Sunday, the largest denomination in the country reeling from a decade of conflict and a crippling economic crisis. Syria’s currency has been on a downward spiral since the conflict began in 2011. Trading that year at 47 liras to...

Saudi Arabia intercepted a "hostile target" over Riyadh on Saturday, said state media in the kingdom which has come under repeated attack from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels since 2015. An explosion was heard in the Saudi capital at around 11:00 am (0800 GMT), AFP correspondents...

Ugandan soldiers working as part of a peacekeeping force in Somalia have killed 189 al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters in an attack on one of their camps, the Ugandan army said. Ugandan troops are part of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, whose aim is to support the...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting against Yemen’s Houthi movement said it had thwarted an attack by the Houthis on Saturday towards the Saudi capital Riyadh, the kingdom’s state-owned broadcaster Al-Hadath TV reported on its Twitter page. Since 2015 the Saudi-led coalition has been fighting...

In a statement sent to Al-Monitor that had been published in a Telegram group counting over 6,000 members, the Popular Movement Coordination in Shaitat said in English and Arabic that demands included “to release detainees and return the stolen items that were stolen from homes during raids by...

BAGHDAD: Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in a crowded Baghdad market, killing at least 32 people and wounding 110 others in Iraq's first big suicide bombing for three years, authorities said, describing it as a possible sign of the reactivation of Islamic State. Islamic...

 Israeli warplanes fired several missiles in central Hama province early Friday, Syrian state media reported, without giving word on casualties. State-news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the attack took place shortly before dawn when Israeli warplanes...

IDLIB, Syria — Syrians are finding it hard to move around in northwest Syria, where Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Turkish-backed opposition factions control the crossings linking the areas in Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, and the Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield areas. The...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria announced Wednesday that the next round of talks toward revising the war-battered country's constitution will start in Geneva on Jan. 25 and urged the parties to move to actual drafting. Geir Pedersen told the U.N. Security Council he views the meeting...

Storms and heavy rains have affected thousands of displaced Syrians living in camps throughout the country's northwest. Children's advocacy group Save The Children says that more than 40,000 people have been affected by the recent storm. More than 2,500 tents have been destroyed...

Syrian Response Coordination Group said on Wednesday that the displaced people are facing poor humanitarian conditions in the camps, with a significant drop in temperatures and snowfall in several areas in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo provinces. The Group indicated that the...

Distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the 92 least developed countries will not start before late March, health authorities said Tuesday.  While high and middle income countries are already undergoing vaccination, the least developed poor countries have not been able to receive the...

Qatar has suspended its case at the World Trade Organization against the United Arab Emirates over measures it said were designed to isolate Qatar economically. The suspension, announced in a document filed at the WTO on Tuesday, follows moves by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to...

Iraq's cabinet decided on Tuesday to postpone the general election to Oct. 10 from June, the state news agency INA said. The government last year set a general election for June 6, 2021, roughly a year ahead of when it would normally be held, but Iraq's Independent High Election Commission...

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria  said more than 150,000 Palestinian refugees have fled Syria since 2011. The Britain-based monitoring group said Saturday that over 150,000 refugees fled war-torn Syria since the outbreak of the conflict in 2011, including 125,000 to...

An explosion Tuesday in an oil tanker outside a state fuel distribution company in central Syria caused a massive fire, state media reported. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion. Video aired by state news agency SANA showed huge plumes of smoke and high flames...

Turkish forces are redeploying gradually at military observation points they had pulled out from after they were besieged by Syrian regime forces in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria. On Monday, Turkish forces began establishing a new military post in Qastoun town in the Sahl...