The Israeli army shelled two observation posts near a fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, witnesses said late Friday. Israel bombed two observation posts belonging to Palestinian resistance group Hamas in the northern city of Beit Lahia and Gaza City’s eastern Shajaiyya district....

The United Nations said Friday it had sent aid to thousands of displaced Syrians living in an isolated desert camp near the Jordanian border, the first such delivery since February. The joint UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy comes ahead of planned "assisted departures" from the...

A piece of legislation intended to prevent the U.K. from crashing out of the EU without an agreement is set to become law after passing through the House of Lords without any amendments.  The Benn bill completed its legislative scrutiny after passing through parliament’s upper house...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered words of encouragement Saturday hours after India’s failed attempt to land a craft on the moon. “There will be a new dawn and a brighter tomorrow very soon,” he said. “We don’t have to look back, we need to take lessons and move ahead till the objective...

The 44th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a documentary celebration of Canada’s The Band and the premiere of Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of “David Copperfield.” The start of North America’s largest film festival heralds the beginning of the fall movie season and...

Syria’s wheat and barley crops this year improved helped by favorable rainfall and better overall security but food security remains a challenge, a joint report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) said on Thursday. Wheat production...

Hundreds of Syrians held anti-regime protests Friday in rebel-held Idlib province where a fragile ceasefire has paused a deadly months-old offensive. Some demonstrators gathered near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, where Turkish border guards last week fired warning shots...

 Britain's upper House of Lords gave final approval Friday to a law aimed at preventing a no-deal Brexit in a major defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government. The law, which would require Johnson to seek a three-month delay to Brexit if he does not manage to strike a...

Recent attacks by the Syrian regime have been catastrophic, Turkey’s vice president said on Friday. "Unfortunately, the recent attacks of the Syrian regime make too much civilian catastrophies," Fuat Oktay told Bloomberg in an exclusive interview. According to the UN, more than...

Joint military land patrols by Turkish and U.S. forces in northeast Syria are planned to start on Sept. 8, state-owned Anadolu news agency quoted Defence Minister Hulusi Akar as saying Friday. The two NATO allies are working to establish what Turkey says will be a "safe zone" along the...

Russian state watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Friday it asked Facebook and Google to ban the publication of political advertising during elections on Sunday and on the preceding day, in line with Russian law. Russia will hold several regional elections on Sunday, including in Moscow....

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday that it appeared Iran was inching toward a place where talks could be held, days after U.S. President Donald Trump left the door open to a possible meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in New York....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rights advocates to launch on Friday a solidarity campaign on the International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearance in the opposition-held areas and refuge countries. Mohamed Ka’kah, president of the Association for the Defense of the Detainees in...

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre on Wednesday launched Universal Jurisdiction guides over the local Syrian communities in EU that may provide assistance for prosecutors, legal practitioners, activists, and ordinary Syrians who joined the discussion on the rights of Syrian victims...

Unidentified attackers killed two aid workers who were returning from a refugee camp in a western Ethiopia region that shares a border with South Sudan, their aid group and a U.N. organization said. The attack happened Thursday in Gambella region, which shares a porous frontier with...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong "must be guaranteed" after meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Beijing, her spokesperson said. In a tweet, spokesperson Steffen Seibert quoted Merkel as saying: "The rights and...

The Taliban attacked a third provincial capital in Afghanistan in less than a week, killing at least two civilians, an official said Friday as a U.S. envoy was back in Qatar for unexpected talks on a U.S.-Taliban deal he had described as complete just days earlier. Farah provincial...

Pakistan's army chief has accused India of being responsible for "state terrorism" in the Indian-controlled sector of the divided Kashmir. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa also said the Pakistani military is ready for "every sacrifice" and "will never abandon" the people of Kashmir. He...

A clash of generations will decide the U.S. Open on Saturday with Serena Williams taking a fourth crack at Grand Slam history against teenager Bianca Andreescu, who was not even born when the American lifted her first Flushing Meadows trophy. One short of equalling Margaret Court's...

As many as 124 churches have been damaged or targeted by military forces on all sides of Syria's war, which has stretched on for more than eight years, according to a new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). The report's timeline of incidents involving Syrian regime...