Syrian forces pursued a relentless air and ground offensive against Eastern Ghouta Thursday, moving closer to retaking the rebel enclave but also depriving desperate civilians of vital aid.  More than 900 civilians have been killed in the nearly three-week assault on the last...

BEIRUT (Reuters)- The Syrian army is poised to slice rebel-held eastern Ghouta in two as forces advancing from the east link up with troops at the enclave's western edge, a pro-Damascus military commander said Thursday. That put the zone effectively under Syrian regime control as the...

Britain and Saudi Arabia will monitor shipping lanes in preparation for opening Yemeni ports, the British foreign minister said on Wednesday after meeting his Saudi counterpart in Yemen, according to Saudi-run Al Arabiya television. Boris Johnson also said London would seek a United...

DUBAI: Air strikes killed a woman and a young girl in northern Yemen on Wednesday in a series of attacks by an Arab coalition fighting the country's Iran-aligned Houthi movement, residents told Reuters. The Arab-led alliance, which has intervened in Yemen's war since 2015 to try to...