The United States along with several Arab and European countries called on a UN envoy Thursday to urgently set up a committee on drafting a post-war constitution for Syria and report on his progress by October 31. The foreign ministers of the seven countries met on the sidelines of the UN...

Syrian rebels forced from their towns when government forces retook eastern Ghouta near Damascus are starting over in the far north, aiming to build hundreds of homes for displaced fighters and civilians on opposition-held land near the Turkish border. Jaish al-Islam, one of Syria’s most...

© SOS MEDITERRANEE/AFP/File | The head of MSF Italy urged a solution be found to allow Aquarius to continue with migrant rescues in the Mediterranean despite Panama revoking its flag as a trio of Swiss lawmakers urged their government to allow the vessel to fly a Swiss flag ROME (AFP)...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday dismissed Lieutenant-General Jamil al-Shammari, an army commander in Basra, against the backdrop of ongoing violent protests in the country’s south. The move came only hours before parliament was scheduled to vote on whether or not to...