The Syrian regime's media confirmed that the list of citizens' luxuries is expanding, to include new basic materials due to the insanely high prices and weak purchasing power. The state-run Tishreen newspaper reported on Saturday that talking about shopping for items such as meat,...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine's besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help. The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war's worst...

LVIV, Ukraine — The office of the Prosecutor General in Ukraine has accused Russian security and military forces of kidnapping a Ukrainian journalist covering the Russian offensive in the east and the south of Ukraine. In a Facebook statement Saturday, the Prosecutor General’s office...

  Bashar Assad was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011. In a statement posted on its social media pages, the office says that Assad met with Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,...