Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged strategic port city. Even as Russia intensified its attempt to pummel Mariupol into surrender, its offensive in...

The opposition's National Coalition on Mother's Day has praised the Syrian mothers' patience and courage throughout the long years of war where they lost tens of thousands of their beloved sons by the Assad regime. In a statement,  the key opposition group congratulated the Syrian...

LVIV, Ukraine — An ammonia leak at a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has contaminated an area with a radius of more than 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles), officials said early Monday. Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy didn’t say what caused the leak. The...

The Lebanese Hezbollah militia on Sunday sent new military reinforcements in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs. Zaman al-Wasl reporter, quoting private sources, said that the reinforcements came from the city of Deir Ezzor, including a convoy of 50 militants with...