Russia said Wednesday it was returning more troops and weapons to bases, yet another gesture apparently aimed at easing fears it is planning to invade Ukraine, even as the U.S. said the threat of an attack remained. Russia has massed about 150,000 troops east, north and south of Ukraine,...

A Syrian refugee was shot dead by a Lebanese robbery gang in the Central Bekaa Valley, one of the victim’s relatives told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The gang pretended to be security officers when they broke into his house in al-Omariya town on Sunday but soon a quarrel erupted, and the gang...

Residents of a village in the country side of Raqqa province in northeast Syria have said that oil pollution has contaminated their supply of drinking water, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday. Last week, the residents of al-Asadiyah - a village in the outskirts of...

Israel's Arab minority and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have raised $10 million in less than a month to build homes for Syrian refugees, according to activists behind the campaign. "The idea was to collect 100 heaters for 100 houses. Then we found out that people...