VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian troops pressed their offensive in Ukraine's east, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired his state security chief and prosecutor general on Sunday, citing hundreds of criminal proceedings into treason and collaboration by people within their...

Hajar al Aswad (Syria) (AFP) – A ghost town since a 2018 operation to flush out jihadists, Hajar al-Aswad near the Syrian capital has come back to life as the location of a Jackie Chan-produced action movie. "Home Operation" is inspired by China's 2015 evacuation of Chinese and other...

PALAIOCHORI, Greece (AP) — Experts were poised to investigate the site of a plane crash in northern Greece Sunday to determine whether any dangerous chemicals or explosive cargo remains. The An-12 cargo plane smashed into fields between two villages late Saturday. Local residents reported...

The Syrian regime forces intensified their artillery and missile shelling, targeting villages and towns in the countryside of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo, located within the so-called "fourth de-escalation zone", local sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  Regime forces and Russia-backed militias...