Kazakhstan will start in March its first independent UN peacekeeping mission in the Middle East, the government announced. Both chambers of the parliament on Friday voted for the proposal of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to send 139 Kazakh peacekeepers to the Golan Heights in Syria....

The tents of 525 families were submerged in camps from heavy rainfall in the northwestern province of Idlib in Syria where civilians are fleeing attacks by Syrian army forces.  The White Helmets civil defense group said in a statement that due to the downpour, the tents in 43 camps near...

BEIRUT, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children early on Thursday, according to local Syrian media and monitors tracking the conflict. There was no immediate comment from Jordanian authorities. Jordan's army has stepped up a...

PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into how the group kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The procedural...