BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in southern China on Monday, officials said, in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade. There was no immediate word on survivors. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement...

LVIV, Ukraine — An ammonia leak at a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has contaminated an area with a radius of more than 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles), officials said early Monday. Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy didn’t say what caused the leak. The...

The Lebanese Hezbollah militia on Sunday sent new military reinforcements in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs. Zaman al-Wasl reporter, quoting private sources, said that the reinforcements came from the city of Deir Ezzor, including a convoy of 50 militants with...

A Dutch man from Arnhem was imprisoned and tortured by the Syrian regime in the early 2010s, according to an investigation by NRC . He likely died after four years of detention. These findings could result in legal action if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes the case in the...