WASHINGTON (AP) — Global finance leaders are putting the growing crisis over food insecurity and skyrocketing food prices at center stage as members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank meet in Washington and grapple with the brutal effects of Russia's war against Ukraine....

The Dutch NRC reported that more than 90% of Syrians who applied for asylum in 2015 are now living in their own homes, and no longer live in KOA shelters.  The news site confirmed that nine out of ten people of Syrian or Eritrean nationality who applied for asylum in 2015 have been...

The cut in fuel allocations to gas stations caused a stifling transportation crisis in the city of Damascus, the effects of which became clear after photos of hundreds of citizens piling at the main bus station of the capital. Social media activists in the regime-controlled areas made calls...

BEIRUT (AP) — During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops “will lead to...