Three New Zealanders, including a woman alleged to be a member of Islamic State, have been caught trying to enter Turkey illegally from Syria, according to Turkish authorities. The New Zealand nationals were caught by border guards in the Reyhanli district in the southern province of...

The attack late Monday was the first time in nearly two months that Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq, after a string of similar incidents. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for an investigation and promised to "hold accountable those...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party on Tuesday called for a massive military operation against the PKK terror group in the Qandil and Sinjar regions of northern Iraq. "The glorious Turkish flag should be hoisted on Qandil at dawn, and terrorist leaders should be buried in their caves....

Israel held out the possibility Tuesday that it would not engage with U.S. President Joe Biden on strategy regarding the Iranian nuclear program, urging tougher sanctions and a "credible military threat" against its arch-enemy. The remarks by Israel's envoy to Washington came at a touchy...

Donald Trump had to be talked down from ordering the assassination of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to a former adviser. KT Macfarland, former deputy national security adviser, said that weeks after he took office in 2017, the former president insisted that he would “take...

 Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria's state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters. The SANA news agency claimed that Syrian air defenses shot down...

Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to "the next ecological disaster". The agreement to bring Emirati crude oil by tanker to a pipeline in the Red Sea port of Eilat was signed after Israel normalised...

Syria claimed early Monday that Israel conducted missile strikes on military points around the capital Damascus. The Israeli air force conducted missile attacks on military targets around the capital at 01.18 a.m. local time, according to the SANA news agency, which is affiliated with the...

 Syria's army said on Monday the country's air defenses intercepted an "Israeli aggression" over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of Iranian targets inside the country. State media did not give details of what was hit by the Israeli air force in the latest...

A US-backed Kurdish force in northeast Syria handed over 100 alleged Islamic State (IS) group fighters to Baghdad this week, a senior Iraqi security source told AFP on Sunday. The Iraqi fighters were being interrogated before being transferred to the judiciary, the source said....

India is gifting 2,000 metric tonnes of rice to Syria following a request from the Arab republic, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. The first consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice was handed over by Indian ambassador to Syria Hifzur Rahman to Syrian Minister of Local...

A record 12.4 million people in war-torn Syria are struggling to find enough food to eat, the UN food agency has said, in an increase it described as "alarming". The figure means "60 percent of the Syrian population are now food insecure", the World Food Programme said, based on results...

At least one civilian was killed and 12 others injured in a bomb blast in northern Syria on Saturday, local sources said. Terrorists blew up an explosives-laden vehicle in a crowded market in Cobanbey town in Aleppo province, the sources said. Shops in the area were heavily damaged and...

A terrorist who recently surrendered to Turkish security forces accounted for heinous attacks of the PKK terror group. One of the many terrorists surrendered through persuasion efforts by the gendarmerie and police teams in coordination with the Interior Ministry, identified by the initials...

A Palestinian man was killed and another two injured Friday morning after being rammed by an Israeli settler's car, according to an official cited by local media.  The Palestinian Wafa news agency confirmed that the 52-year-old Belal Bauatneh from the town of Al-Berih was killed, with...

Russia has been developing the Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia in western Syria in preparation for it to receive strategic nuclear bombers as part of plans to strengthen the Russian presence in the country, Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported. The paper said Russia is modernising the...

The Syrian government intends to seize property and assets of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people who fail to pay exorbitant fees - already one of the administration's biggest sources of income - in exchange for military service exemptions. Brigadier General Elias Bitar, head...

At least 12 Iranian-backed terrorists fighting with the Bashar al-Assad regime were killed in an airstrike conducted by US-led anti-Daesh/ISIS coalition forces in eastern Syria, sources said Thursday. Warplanes targeted a convoy of terrorist groups in Deir ez-Zor province. Pipelines and...

Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of Okba, Almashan’s older brother, was among thousands of graphic images...

Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of Okba, Almashan’s older brother, was among thousands of graphic...