Chanting anti-American slogans, thousands of Iraqis converged on a landmark square in central Baghdad on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. Roads leading to Tahrir Square were closed off...

Hezbollah on Sunday marked the first anniversary of killing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani with a ceremony at Lebanon's southern border with Israel. In a symbolic event on a hill outside Kfar Kila overlooking the Israeli settlement of Metula, a batch of...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said on Saturday that it has documented at least at least 1,882 cases of arbitrary arrest/ detention in Syria in 2020, 149 of them in December; detainees include 52 children and 39 women, the report notes, emphasizing that Syria is neither stable nor...

Syria on Saturday lambasted the US government for sanctions it has imposed on Damascus, following a UN special rapporteur's statement that called on Washington to remove unilateral sanctions against the war-torn country. The Syrian Foreign Ministry described US sanctions against the country...