The scale of assassinations and arrests in southern Daraa province has hiked since December amid ongoing security chaos that has increased since the Russian-brokered settlement between the Syrian regime and opposition factions in July 2018. A report by the Ahrar Horan Group, local...

(AP) — Iran plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at its underground Fordo nuclear facility, international inspectors said Saturday, pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over its tattered atomic deal. The International Atomic...

A car bomb detonated near a Russian military base in northeastern Syria Friday in the first such attack in the area against the ally of Damascus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported several wounded in the attack after midnight in the Tal...

Some 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against Covid-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic. A snapshot: - China leads the way - China, where the pandemic first emerged, was also the first to...