Iran’s coast guard has seized a vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 crew members from the Philippines, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The vessel was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel, the news agency said on Saturday. Iran, which...

As many as 124 churches have been damaged or targeted by military forces on all sides of Syria's war, which has stretched on for more than eight years, according to a new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). The report's timeline of incidents involving Syrian regime...

The EU called on the Syrian regime and its allies to stop attacks in northwestern Syria, an official said on Thursday. "As the UN points out and as we have reiterated in previous statements, there is a shocking escalation in the worsening conflict in north-west Syria. "There is also a...

Six months after he was snatched from a road in central Syria, Iyad Suleiman was allowed by his kidnappers to make a Skype video call home. His children were startled at how he looked — skinny and exhausted, with a long beard. He told his wife to keep talking with his captors and Syrian...