Syrian regime forces and allied militias have deliberately intensified artillery and missile bombardment on agricultural areas in rebel-held northwestern Syria, setting huge fires to wheat and barley crops, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.    The regime forces stationed in the...

Desperate Syrians in eastern Ghouta had to come up with creative ways to meet basic needs and avoid starvation when regime forces in 2013 imposed a crippling siege on them. Omar Mubarak, an English teacher in the region's Hawsh al-Dawahira village, built a biogas project that helped provide...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese laboratory. After months of minimizing that...

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to “rally international support” to aid Gaza during a visit to Israel at the start of a regional tour to shore up last week’s cease-fire. He said Tuesday the U.S. would work to address the “grave humanitarian...