Jordan has seized one tonne of amphetamine pills being smuggled in date paste at the border with Iraq. A total of six million pills of the drug known as Captagon were found inside two refrigerated lorries. It was one of the largest such hauls ever intercepted, the Jordanian Customs...

The wages Youssef once earned as a taxi driver in Aleppo used to be enough: though the days were often long, his family had never been in need. But in recent weeks, acute fuel shortages have paralysed regime-held parts of Syria and Youssef is increasingly unable to find, let alone...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Baran Ramadan Mesko had been hiding with other migrants for weeks in the coastal Algerian city of Oran, awaiting a chance to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Days before the 38-year-old Syrian Kurd was to begin the journey, he received news that a...

Two soldiers were injured by Israeli airstrikes in the vicinity of the Syrian capital of Damascus early Tuesday, the first such attack in more than a month, a Syrian military statement reported. In addition to the injuries, the strikes caused some “material losses,” the statement said...