Clashes in the Syrian Desert between pro-government forces and holdouts of the Daesh group have killed at least 90 combatants this month, a war monitor said Wednesday. Russian aircraft carried out strikes in support of their Syrian regime ally, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....

“Many relatives of mine were living in camps near the border with Turkey,” says Huda Husein, a 25-year-old teacher living in the rebel-held enclave of Idlib in north west Syria, “but last month they returned home [to the cities and villages] because they prefer dying under an airstrike to...

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday parliamentary consultations to choose a new prime minister who will form the country’s next government will begin on Oct. 15. Lebanon’s government resigned on Aug. 10 in the wake of a devastating blast that killed nearly 200 people and...

India’s coronavirus caseload crossed 6.7 million Wednesday as the country registered 72,049 infections in the past 24 hours.  The overall tally of coronavirus cases in the country has now reached 6,757,131, according to the Health Ministry. There were also 986 new fatalities...