RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A popular Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup that could severely weaken President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and help its militant Hamas...

Syria’s Kurdish-led forces arrested 71 suspected militants, including a religious leader and a militant recruiter, in an ongoing security sweep at a sprawling camp that houses families and supporters of the Islamic State group, a spokesman said Wednesday. The campaign, which started...

When Fatima and her family the fled violent militias ruling over their hometown of Mosul, Iraq, in early 2018, they imagined they were heading away, not towards, mortal danger. That March, Fatima, 28, her husband and two children were smuggled across the northeastern Syrian border....

Syrian government has proceeded to 50% cut in gasoline allocations for the coastal region, Damascus and northern Aleppo provinces on Wednesday.   Pro-regime media outlets media quoted a member of the executive office of the transport sector in Lattakia, Malik al-Khayer that the move...