BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest reduction to Nord Stream 1 that Russia has blamed on technical problems, but Germany calls a political move to sow...

Gunmen supporting Syria's regime and others opposed to Damascus clashed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a war monitor said. Six loyalists and four people against the regime lost their lives after the fighting erupted in two villages in the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia targeted Ukraine’s Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with air strikes Tuesday, hitting private buildings and port infrastructure along the country's southern coast, the Ukrainian military said. The Kremlin’s forces used air-launched missiles in the...

The head of the Syrian Securities and Financial Markets Authority said that he hopes that a new currency of 10,000 Syrian pounds will be introduced, provided that no more than the damaged amount of the old currency will be printed, indicating that he did not confirm or assume that the Central...