Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for ISIS-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the first-ever return of detainees to Syrian areas, the camp director said, a move enabled by the fall of the al-Assad regime. Al-Hol camp director Jihan Hanan said preparations were...

German Christian Democratic Union candidate Friedrich Merz has announced a tough programme on refugees and migration on his first day as chancellor – if he wins in February. Merz, 69, will reject all migrants without valid entry documents at the German border and stop asylum seekers from...

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar on Thursday sent more relief and aid planes to Syria as part of their efforts to help the Syrian people following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in early December. According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, a Saudi cargo aid aircraft arrived at the...

More than 38,000 Palestinian children have been orphaned by Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, a Health Ministry official said on Thursday. “At least 13,901 women were also widowed by the war,” Zaher al-Wahidi told Anadolu. The Palestinian official explained...