As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months — not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and more...

BEIRUT: Lebanon plans to start sending back tens of thousands of Syrian refugees within months over objections by the UN and rights groups, a minister said in an interview on Wednesday. Lebanon has one of the world’s highest numbers of refugees per capita and currently hosts over 1...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who arrived in Syria on Saturday, held a series of meetings with high-ranking Syrian officials focusing on bilateral and regional issues. The discussions between Amir-Abdollahian, his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad and Bashar al-Assad...

MADRID (AP) — NATO faced rebukes from Moscow and Beijing on Thursday after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges ” to global stability. The Western military alliance was wrapping up a summit in Madrid, where it issued a stark warning that the...