By Mansour al-Omari ( The New Arab )- From the very first demonstration against the Syrian government in 2011, until the most recent Khan Sheikhun chemical attack in 2017, the narrative of these incidents pushed by Syrian state media has always been very different to the facts on ground, if...

The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Wednesday publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas attack on a Syrian city that tested their fragile alliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan,...

Yemen faces a "famine of Biblical proportions", veteran aid expert Jan Egeland warned on Wednesday during a visit to the war-battered nation, expressing fury over the failure of the "men with guns and power" to end the crisis. Yemen's two years of civil war have pitted the Iran-aligned...

The West Bank-based government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will stop paying for electricity in the power-starved Gaza Strip and "dry up" the flow of funds to the territory's Hamas rulers, a senior official said Wednesday. Hamas accused the Abbas government of irresponsible...