The Syrian regime released 72 detainees from Daraa in two batches, all of whom were arrested after the regime took control of the southern province in July 2018, the Ahrar Houran Gathering said.   The local monitoring group said that 17 conscripts in the regime forces were released and at...

  The US-led Kurdish forces re-pumped gas from Al-Shaddadi fields in northeastern Hasakah province to Al-Rayyan station in the central Homs region, after a 3-week halt came in response to the regime's siege of Kurdish civilians in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city.  ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — When the moist concrete walls deep below ground and the mold and the cold and the weeks without fresh fruit or vegetables became too much to bear, some in the bunker underneath Elina Tsybulchenko’s office decided to visit the sky. They made their way, through...