Pope Francis prayed Saturday for an end to the coronavirus pandemic, using his Christmas Day address to urge health care for all, vaccines for the poor and for dialogue to prevail in resolving the world’s conflicts. Amid a record-setting rise in COVID-19 cases in Italy this week,...

 Electricity shortage has done what mortar shells or bombs couldn't: depriving the Damascus residents of Christmas, a day which they used to enjoy and is emblematic of the inspiring peace between the country's Muslims and Christians. In the Bab Touma district, a part of the Old City of...

Two people were killed from a projectile fired by Houthi rebels from Yemen into Saudi territories, according to the Saudi-led coalition on Saturday. A coalition statement cited by the Saudi state news agency SPA said the projectile struck the southern city of Samtah late Friday, killing a...

A Palestinian woman was run over and killed by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Friday. An unidentified settler rammed a car into 60-year-old Ghadeer Fuqaha, a resident of Sinjil, a town located north of Ramallah. The attack took place on a road between the settlements of...