Government ovens closed their doors to civilians in southern Sweida province amid reports new reduction in flour allocation to 16 percent, local news website reported. Sweida24 said the manager of the main oven in Sweida city had assured that regulations and instructions would not allow...

The top commander of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Friday that his country was fully prepared to respond to any U.S. military pressure, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration. Gen. Hossein...

A car bomb detonated near a Russian military base in northeastern Syria Friday in the first such attack in the area against the ally of Damascus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported several wounded in the attack after midnight in the Tal...

Some 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against Covid-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic. A snapshot: - China leads the way - China, where the pandemic first emerged, was also the first to...