The Lebanese military Sunday recovered the bodies of eight migrants whose boat carrying at least 56 people capsized the night before, raising the death toll to nine, state media reported. The National News Agency said the eight bodies were found near a small island off the coast of the...

Russian warplanes on Friday night carried out several air strikes using high-explosive air-to-air missiles, targeting several areas in northern Idlib province.   Military sources in the Al-Fateh Al-Mubeen operations room told Zaman al-Wasl that Russian warplanes took off from the Hmeimim...

Syrians could be jailed for up to 15 years for minor criticism of the Assad regime following amendments to existing cybercrime laws. The draconian new changes were announced this week, laying out harsh penalties for vaguely worded offences including online criticism of the president,...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's deputy culture and information minister, said the bombing in...