As the world was getting ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve, a video was posted on social media of a man carrying his young son in Idlib, Syria, while a woman desperately tries to shake the boy awake. The child was reportedly killed by one of the dozens of Syrian government-Russian airstrikes...

A Saudi-led Arab coalition has warned Yemen's rebels threaten ships in the Red Sea through their control of a key port, days after rebel warnings over a coalition blockade. "The port of Hodeida is a launching pad for terrorist operations threatening navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab...

(The National)- For 6,900 Syrians living in the US under a temporary protected status (TPS) since 2012, their legal stay could soon come to an end if the Trump administration decides in three weeks to terminate the program as it did with El Salvador, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Following a...

A series of six earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 5 hit along the Iran-Iraq border and rattled even Baghdad and parts of the Iraqi countryside Thursday, striking in the same area that saw a temblor in November that killed over 530 people. There were no immediate reports of injuries or...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian rebels launched counterattack to recapture territory taken by the regime forces and allied Shiite militias in northwestern Idlib province on Thursday. The move followed rapid gains by the regime forces are approaching a sprawling rebel-held air base in...

Just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in Syria, Russian military outposts in the country have come under rebel attacks that are challenging Moscow's gains. Russian bases located in Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite heartland had been immune to rebel...

A Syrian refugee in Lebanon set himself on fire Wednesday outside a UN office in desperation at aid getting cut off to his family, suffering serious burns. Refugee agency UNHCR and the World Food Programme told AFP that the man -- named by family as 43-year-old father of four Ryad...

Israeli settlers used bulldozers to vandalize some agricultural lands belonging to Palestinian families in Nablus city’s Madama district in occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Israeli soldiers intervened against Palestinian residents reacting against settlers' vandalizing of their lands;...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee at Tadmur (Palmyra) Military Prison recounts the stories of several detainees who were held in the famous prison known as the Syrian Bastille. He tells of their tragedies and pains which remained unheard throughout the 1980s. Some of the people whose...

The U.S. charges d‘affaires in Ankara has been summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry over recent developments in Syria, sources in the Turkish foreign ministry said on Wednesday. They gave no details of Ankara’s concerns. Turkey and the United States have been at loggerheads over...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 people have been killed in a suicide attack in the northwestern province o Idlib city, local activists said on Wednesday. The bomb attack targeted commanders from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the neighborhood of Jbara.  No rebel group has claimed the...

Iran's foreign minister is visiting Moscow for talks focusing on the future of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and the situation in Syria, where both nations support President Bashar Assad. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif emphasized the need for close cooperation to...

Two Molotov cocktails have been thrown at a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, setting fire to the building. The president of Djerba's Jewish community, Perez Trabelsi, told The Associated Press Wednesday that the attack was perpetrated by two people on a motorbike. He said the...

Russia's Defense Ministry has asked the Turkish military to tighten control over armed groups in the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria after two groups of drones attacked Russian bases last week, the ministry's newspaper said on Wednesday. The Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper said all the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted an ISIS attack in the western countryside of Daraa city, local activists said on Wednesday. Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, the ISIS affiliate, is pushing to control of the towns of Jbailiya and al-Bakkar near its stronghold in al-Jaidour region....

A Syrian man set himself on fire Wednesday in north Lebanon in front of a center managed by the U.N.'s refugee agency, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Libya's navy says some 100 migrants are believed missing at sea and that at least 279 others have been rescued off the Libyan coast. Wednesday's statement says the migrants, mostly Africans, had embarked on the perilous trip across the Mediterranean in several vessels. Those missing...

Syria's state media say regime forces and their allies are approaching a sprawling rebel-held air base in the northwestern province of Idlib from different directions. Recapturing the Abu Zuhour air base, which the rebels took in 2015, has been one of the main targets of a major...

Drones that attacked Russian bases in Syria last week were sent from Idlib, a "de-escalation" zone controlled by anti-Damascus fighters, the Russian defense ministry's official newspaper said Wednesday. Idlib province has been a source of tension between regime-backer Russia and...

President Donald Trump was dealt yet another judicial defeat late Tuesday night when a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the administration to halt its plan to end a program protecting young undocumented migrants from deportation. Trump ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for...