The Syrian Oil Minister announced a partial breakthrough in the gasoline crisis that the country has suffered in recent days, confirming the arrival of new supplies of crude oil. Bassam Tohma told pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper that the crisis has not completely ended because it is linked to...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Some women and children have been evacuated from a steel plant that is the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, while U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine's president in the country's capital in a show of...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led a Congressional delegation to Kyiv to meet with Ukraine's president before heading to Poland for talks with officials there. Pelosi, a California Democrat and second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Funerals were held across northern Lebanon on Monday for seven people killed when a boat packed with migrants sank over the weekend as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore. The small vessel was carrying nearly 60 people — many times its capacity —...