Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party’s grip on power. It will be the fourth election to Syria’s largely rubber-stamp parliament since civil...

A fire broke out late Thursday in the occupied Golan Heights following the launch of a rocket from Syrian territory, according to Israeli media reports. Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth daily cited the Golan Regional Council as saying that a rocket launched from Syria exploded in the Dalit Junction...

Sweden announced on Tuesday it would toughen up family reunification rules and potentially expand DNA testing in an effort to slash immigration. The Swedish government vowed to harden eligibility criteria like income that allow foreign nationals to join relatives residing in Sweden....

Hussein al-Naasan struggles to provide water for his family in the scorching summer, as aid funds have dried up and conditions deteriorated in impoverished displacement camps in Syria’s northwest. “Water is life, it is everything... and now we are being deprived of water,” Naasan told...