The Iranian Revolutionary Guards militia on Wednesday burned three houses in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs, after storming and searching them, in an act of revenge against civilians whose relatives belonged to the "Islamic State" group. Zaman al-Wasl reporter...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian artillery pummeled the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in April, one family decided to flee, walking for miles with three young children in tow to a nearby village. But it was thanks to a volunteer driver who crossed the front line that they managed to...

A Syrian military official said an Israeli attack targeted sites south of the capital Damascus early on Friday, Syrian state media reported. Syrian air defences intercepted the missiles and downed most of them, but the attack caused one civilian injury and some material damage, the official...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Greece to demilitarize islands in the Aegean Sea, saying he was “not joking” with the admonition. Turkey says Greece has been building a military presence in violation of treaties that guarantee the unarmed...

The Biden administration has no plans to support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or lift sanctions on the regime, the top US diplomat for the Middle East said Wednesday. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf told US lawmakers...

 A new study by the “Harmoon Center For Contemporary Studies examines the world of warlords who were formed in the regime’s areas and under its auspices during the years of war, those who created huge fortunes, filled financial voids formed by general conditions, and rose to the top of the...

The rate of chickenpox infections in the al-Hussainiya camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus suburbs has increased significantly in recent times due to the scarcity of water and the lack of medical services provided to the people, monitoring group said. The Action Group for Palestinians...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to travel to Turkey on Wednesday for talks expected to centre on the issue of establishing a mechanism that would allow Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea to global markets. Turkey is involved in efforts by the United Nations to...

Syria’s state television reported Tuesday that Israeli missiles targeted Syrian army positions south of the capital of Damascus, causing material damage but no casualties. , The TV quoted an unnamed military official as saying that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles while flying over...

Three civilians, including two children, were wounded in a terrorist attack in northwestern Syria on Monday. A car bomb detonated in the opposition-held Azaz district, causing casualties, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground. The injured people were taken to a...

Umm Ḩajrah (Syria) (AFP) – Moussa Fatimi's wheat field was once part of a thriving Syrian breadbasket. Now, he can't even grow enough to feed his family, and the land has been turned over to animals. Fatimi's crop has withered from a climate crisis, adding to fears of supply shortages...

Cilvegözü (Turkey) (AFP) – Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid queue bumper-to-bumper amid the olive groves at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting to be allowed across into war-torn Syria. Inside are baby nappies and blankets, but also 15-kilo (33-pound) bags of flour, bulghur wheat, sugar,...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report, released Friday, that it documented at least 147 arbitrary arrests/detentions in May 2022, including 13 children and four women, noting that the Syrian regime arbitrarily arrested 57 citizens in May and that...

IRBIL, Iraq: Women and children held in Al-Hol, a sprawling camp of some 57,000 people in northeast Syria, endure squalid conditions and almost daily violence, meted out by its many hard-line inmates who still cling to the extremist ideology of Daesh. Violence is endemic inside the camp,...

 An eighth round of talks on a new constitution for Syria has concluded with rival parties having made very little headway, the UN mediator said. The Syrian Constitutional Committee was created in September 2019 and first convened a month later. The tentative negotiations are aimed...

In northern Syria, residents are bracing for a new fight. With the world’s attention focused on the war in Ukraine, Turkey’s leader says he’s planning a major military operation to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create a long sought-after buffer zone in the border area. Tensions are...

A Syrian mother appealed to the Turkish authorities not to deport her to Syria and to keep her away from her child who holds Turkish citizenship because she did not obtain a work permit as a makeup artist. The refugee "Rania Sharkas" appeared in a video circulated on social media, while she...

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s intelligence chief has said he will visit Syria for talks with Syrian leaders about the fate of a US reporter who went missing in Syria a decade ago. Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said US officials want him to resume efforts to bring home Austin Tice and other Americans...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its monthly report released Wednesday that 78 civilians were killed in Syria in May 2022, including 14 children, 11 women, and eight individuals who died as a result of torture. The 14-page report details the death toll of victims...

 A 24 year-old Syrian man believed to be among 43 other Syrian migrants to reached Cyprus on two rubber dinghies has been found dead in waters just off the island’s western coastline, Cypriot police said Thursday. A police spokesman told the Associated Press that the man was likely...