Bahrain hosted a conference on Gulf maritime security on Wednesday, after multiple attacks on shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz sent tensions soaring between Iran and the US. The tiny Gulf monarchy, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet, said the meeting was held "to discuss the current...

At least 17 villages have been "completely destroyed" as the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its principal international ally, Russia, press a military offensive on northwestern Syria's Idlib province, the UN said Tuesday. Mark Lowcock, the UN's humanitarian affairs coordinator, told the...

A workshop was held July 15 at the headquarters of the Syrian opposition's self-styled interim government in Azaz, in the northern Aleppo countryside.  The local councils’ heads of the towns and villages of Aleppo countryside, the interim government’s ministers and Prime Minister...

The British pound  tumbled on Tuesday as investors bet Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit brinkmanship with the European Union could trigger a messy divorce that would sow chaos through the world economy and financial markets. Sterling crashed through trading barriers, falling to an...