Syria's Trade Minister said Thursday that a new mechanism for bread  distribution to be implemented in June which will be based on the monthly quota instead of the daily rations.   The new mechanism guarantees the monthly quota for each family that it receives intermittently, in...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and wounded a third after the men opened fire on a base in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the latest in a series of violent confrontations amid soaring tensions in Jerusalem. Dozens of Palestinians in an east...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as a startling surge in coronavirus cases that has pummeled the country's health system shows no signs of abating. Many...

Dutch authorities have uncovered 173 forged documents submitted at the Ter Apel refugee reception center in 2020 by asylum seekers, the Royal Military Police said. The statistics showed that Syrians and Turks often bring up invalid documents in order to obtain the right to asylum in the...