An official says 17 Syrians have drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast on its way to the Greek island of Leros, AP reported. Gov. Amir Cicek of Mugla province told the state-run Anadolu Agency that the Turkish Coast Guard rescued 20 other Syrian refugees early Sunday. No one...

A district commander and a sergeant in Saudi Arabia's border guard have been killed in an attack launched from across the frontier with Yemen, the Saudi interior ministry said on Saturday. The men were killed by heavy gunfire from the Yemen side of the border on Friday after their patrol...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fly Agaric , Amanita muscaria and other poisonous kinds of mushrooms have become a new killer for Syrians, as it caused death for many Syrian refugees in Germany and Sweden as many refugees died as a result of eating these plants thinking...

Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah on Friday welcomed Russia's military buildup in Syria in support of common ally President Bashar al-Assad, saying it was the failure of a U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State that had forced Moscow's hand. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah...