The state-run Tishreen newspaper reported Monday unprecedented rise in resignations from various government and public sectors, coinciding with a stifling economic crisis and a historic collapse of the local currency. In Damascus alone, the number of resignations during the first half of...

Daesh group militants attacked a convoy of oil tankers guarded by the army in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing seven people including two civilians, a war monitor said. “Five regime forces and two drivers have been killed in the armed attack by Daesh militants” in the east of Hama...

BEIRUT (AP) — An impasse at the United Nations over a border crossing with Syria's last rebel-held enclave is putting 4.1 million Syrian there in danger, the president of the International Rescue Committee warned this week. David Miliband’s comments came more than two weeks after the...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world on Friday commemorated Ashoura, a remembrance of the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. In Afghanistan, the Taliban cut...