Arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of launching a military offensive using artillery fire along their shared border on Sunday, with Baku reporting two troops killed. Azerbaijan's defence ministry said Armenia's "offensive" from its northern Tavush region was met with a...

The water crisis in the eastern suburbs of Damascus is a major catastrophe for residents in light of the spread of the Coronavirus, that requires cleaning and sterilizing homes and clothes and washing hands constantly, which the shortage hinders. The Syrian regime is not doing anything...

Russia's forest service said there were nearly 300 wildfires blazing across the vast country's northern wilderness on Saturday, as it attempted to contain them with methods including explosives and cloud seeding. Freakishly warm weather across large swathes of Siberia since January,...

After surviving months of bombardment, Nasr Sultan now fears his 10 children may starve or catch coronavirus as a divided UN holds up a renewal of cross-border humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria. A UN Security Council resolution authorising aid deliveries through the Turkish...