German authorities deported two Syrian refugees last Wednesday after a police raid on the Wolfhager-Pomerania district at dawn and took the two siblings, Marfan and Katia Khadr, and put them on a plane bound for Bulgaria, activists said. Katia, 18, told HNA channel that her mother had a...

SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Experts boarded the massive container ship Tuesday that had blocked Egypt's vital Suez Canal and disrupted global trade for nearly a week, seeking answers to a single question that could have billions of dollars in legal repercussions: What went wrong? As convoys of...

The United Nations will urge international donors to pledge up to $10 billion on Tuesday to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the need for humanitarian support has never been so great. In the fifth annual conference to keep...

The number of foreigners living in Germany increased by 1.8% last year, the lowest rate in a decade, according to official figures released Monday. The Federal Statistical Office said the foreign-born population rose by about 204,000 to 11.4 million, in a year when Germany and other...

Despite the worsening humanitarian situation across war-ravaged Syria, it's been getting tougher every year to raise money from global donors. The aid community is bracing for significant shortfalls ahead of a donor conference that starts Monday in Brussels and is being co-hosted by the...

Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...

At age 19, Fatima al-Omar is at her wits' end. In the last year alone, she lost her home to fighting in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She became the sole breadwinner for her mother, three siblings and grandmother as they moved around between shelters....

Lebanese group Hezbollah has provided military training to 220 pro-Assad regime Shabiha militants in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, according to local sources. A three-week training camp was organized by two Hezbollah commanders codenamed al-Hajj Mahdi and al-Hajj Salih, said the sources...

Syrian actors from the restive city of Idlib staged a play describing conditions in prisons of the Bashar al-Assad regime. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, actor Zekeriya Seflo said that they will continue their efforts for the release of prisoners. "We will continue to...

Along Iraq's borders, a corrupt customs-evasion cartel is diverting billions of dollars away from state coffers to line the pockets of armed groups, political parties and crooked officials. The prime beneficiaries are Iran-linked Shiite paramilitaries that intimidate federal officials...

Syrian actors in the rebel-held province of Idlib are using their talent to highlight the pain and suffering endured by the hundreds of their fellow citizens detained in the regime's prisons, Anadolu news agency has reported. The project in question is part of a bid to help release the...

Germany will contribute more than 1 billion euros ($1.18 billion) of humanitarian aid to Syria, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung stated on Monday, ahead of a donor conference in Brussels that is designed to extend the humanitarian efforts toward the war-torn country as well as toward refugee-hosting...

The Home Office’s refusal to disclose the number of women who, like Shamima Begum, have been deprived of their British citizenship after travelling to join Islamic State is under investigation by the information commissioner. The watchdog said it would step in after the government...

 An Iranian cargo plane arrived in Damascus International Airport late on Sunday, loaded with weapons, ammunition and missiles, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.   The plane's landing coincided with the mobilization of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia inside and...

An improvised explosive device went out in the turkish-held town of  Ras al-Ayn north of Hasakah city, leaving three people wounded, local activists said Monday. A local source told Zaman al-Wasl that  the IED attack caused some material damage to shops and a car parked in the...

Family of a 50-day-old baby girl who suffers a cerebral hemorrhage caused coma, has appealed to the Turkish authorities to  immediately  admit Sham in hospital to save her life. Sham were admitted in the National Hospital of Azaz town near the Turkish border two weeks ago....

The Syrian ordeal on all psychological, social and economic aspects has led some Palestinian youths to end their lives in one way or another since the uprising erupted tens years ago, a Palestinian monitoring group said Saturday. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) said...

Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...

Eqtsad)- The popular dishes in the Syrian capital are no longer included in the budget of the poor, who now constitute 80 percent of the population due to the low incomes in front of the exorbitant costs that these foods require.  In light of the rocket-high prices that include...

The European Union-United Nations sponsored aid conference for Syria on March 29-30, 2021, should prioritize a rights-respecting aid framework that advances urgent protection, humanitarian, and accountability needs, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.  The fifth conference on...