The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has signed new agreements to purchase wheat from Russia. The Syrian minister of internal trade Amr Salem agreed during a meeting with Russian public sector company representatives to follow up on previous contracts for the supply of wheat to...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A truck bomb Saturday caused a fire and the collapse of a section of a bridge linking Russia-annexed Crimea with Russia, Russian officials said, damaging a key supply artery for Moscow's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. The speaker of Crimea’s...

SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Anti-government demonstrations erupted Saturday in several locations across Iran as the most sustained protests in years against a deeply entrenched theocracy entered their fourth week. At least two people were killed. Marchers chanted anti-government slogans and...

A prominent Syrian opposition activist was assassinated in northern Syria on Friday alongside his pregnant wife. Muhammad Abdullatif, known as Abu Ghannoum, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the city of Al-Bab in the Aleppo governorate. The area is under the control of the "Syrian National...