The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. By the end of...

 Airstrikes over southern Syria early Monday killed one of the country’s most well-known drug dealers, an opposition war monitor and a pro-government radio station reported. The rare attack came days after Jordan warned it would use force inside Syria to eliminate drug trafficking to...

CAIRO (AP) — Arab government representatives in Cairo Sunday voted to return Syria to the Arab League after a 12-year suspension. The vote in the Egyptian capital came days after regional top diplomats met in Jordan to discuss a roadmap to return Syria to the Arab fold as the conflict...

The secretary-general of the Arab League said Syria's return to the organization is possible before its upcoming summit in Riyadh on May 19. Speaking to Egypt's El-Sharq TV on Wednesday, Aboul Gheit said "there is a specific legal context in the Arab League Charter for Syria's reinstatement...