SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard serving Silicon Valley, killing eight people. The gunman was also dead, authorities said. The suspect was an employee of the Valley Transportation Authority, which provides bus, light rail and other transit...

With presidential elections approaching on May 26, 2021 state media have broadcast demonstrations supporting the re-election of Bashar al Assad. While we believe that there is a class of citizens who benefit politically, economically and religiously from the continuation of the current...

Syrians in government-held areas of the war-torn country headed to polling stations early Wednesday to vote in a presidential election guaranteed to give President Bashar Assad a fourth seven-year term. The vote is the second presidential election since the country's conflict began 10 years...

Two Iraqis were killed and 28 others were injured in clashes Tuesday as thousands protested in Baghdad to demand justice over a wave of deadly attacks on pro-democracy activists and journalists. Medics and police said demonstrators were injured when police fired tear gas to disperse them,...