American actress and former television host Olivia Munn has come under fire after it was announced that she is set to play the lead role of a UN journalist in a new drama about Syrian refugees. The drama, titled Aleppo, is to be directed by Brazilian filmmaker David Schurmann and...

Syria's foreign minister accused U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday of attempting to suffocate Syrians with sanctions "just like George Floyd and others were cruelly suffocated in the United States." New U.S. sanctions that took effect in June under the so-called...

The Lebanese security forces killed at least two militants during a heavy exchange of fire on Saturday with an armed group in northeast Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, security sources said. Three members of the Lebanese security forces were also injured in the clash, which began...

Three Syrian refugees from the same family were killed in a crash involving two vehicles at the Gaziantep-Adana highway, Turkish media outlets said on Saturday. The three refugees died at the scene after the car collided with a truck near the city of Nur Dag in southern Turkey....