BEIRUT (AP) — An impasse at the United Nations over a border crossing with Syria's last rebel-held enclave is putting 4.1 million Syrian there in danger, the president of the International Rescue Committee warned this week. David Miliband’s comments came more than two weeks after the U.N....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world on Friday commemorated Ashoura, a remembrance of the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. In Afghanistan, the Taliban cut mobile...

A motorcycle planted with explosives detonated in a Damascus suburb near a Shiite Muslim shrine Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens a day before the solemn holy day of Ashoura, state media reported, citing the interior ministry. Syrian Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabash...

Kuwait said Thursday it executed five prisoners, including an inmate convicted over the bombing of a Shiite mosque in 2015 that killed 27 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group. The inmates were hanged at the Central Prison, Kuwait's Public Prosecution said in a statement....

Two shepherds died on Wednesday in artillery shelling of the regime forces on the western countryside of Aleppo, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The two family members were killed on Wednesday evening, as a result of artillery shelling by the regime forces and militias backed by Russia and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian fighter jet fired flares and struck another U.S. drone over Syrian airspace on Wednesday, the White House said, in a continued string of harassing maneuvers that have ratcheted up tensions between the global powers. It's the sixth reported incident this month, and...

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria has released a new report entitled “No End in Sight: Torture and ill-treatment in the Syrian Arab Republic 2020-2023”. It covers the continuing widespread and systematic patterns of torture and ill-treatment, including enforced...

The Syrian Civil Defense agency warned that the living conditions  in northern Syria are getting worse with the passage of half a month since the end of the mandate to bring humanitarian aid into Syria through the Al-Hawa border crossing, due to Russian extortion of the humanitarian file....

No One Falling for Russian Federation’s, Damascus’ Claims They Are Driven by Humanitarian Considerations, Delegate Stresses Expressing disappointment that the Security Council could not agree to extend its authorization of United Nations cross-border relief operations into Syria, two senior...

Turkish authorities have arrested 1,419 migrants and arrested 104 human traffickers in the northern province of Kocaeli since the beginning of 2023, according to an official statement released on Monday. Kocaeli Province reported that the human smugglers were arrested in 79 separate...

The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 10 irregular migrants on Sunday who were attempting to cross the Aegean Sea and were pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek forces off the coast of Izmir province. A coast guard boat was dispatched to the area upon receiving information about a...

Russian authorities accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow early Monday that saw one of the aircraft fall near the Defense Ministry’s main headquarters, while the Russian military unleashed new strikes on port infrastructure in southern Ukraine. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin...

 Russia struck the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, local officials said, keeping up a barrage of attacks that has damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine in the past week. At least one person was killed and 22 others wounded in the attack in the early...

AMMAN: The UNHCR has warned of “serious consequences” for refugees in Jordan if no adequate funding is added to its shrinking budget. The UN refugee agency has issued a recent appeal calling for “immediate” assistance after other agencies announced plans to reduce health services and food...

KABUL: Afghanistan’s foreign ministry on Saturday denied Iranian allegations about the transfer of Daesh fighters to the landlocked country from Iraq, Syria and Libya, warning Tehran against raising “false alarms” with regard to Afghanistan. The statement came a day after the Iranian foreign...

LONDON: An independent terrorism legislation reviewer has told the UK to repatriate more British nationals from Syria. Jonathan Hall, who advises the government on counterterrorism laws, also said the threat posed by Shamima Begum, the young Londoner who fled the UK aged 15 to join Daesh in...

The Syrian Civil Defense Agency said that the number of cholera deaths in northwestern Syria, the stronghold of the opposition, since the first death was recorded in September of last year 2022 until July 19, has risen to 24, while the number of infected people has risen to 856. The White...

Adolescent boys are systematically being separated from their mothers in detention camps in northeast Syria, a UN expert said Friday, warning the practice was causing irreparable harm and violated international law. Fionnuala Ni Aolain said that during a visit to the Kurdish-controlled...

By pulling out of a landmark deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea, Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking a gamble that could badly damage Moscow’s relations with many of its partners that have stayed neutral or even been supportive of the Kremlin's invasion of its...

As Jordan hosted regional talks this spring aimed at ending Syria’s isolation after more than a decade of civil war, Syrian refugee Suzanne Dabdoob felt a deep pressure in her brain and in her ears, she said, a fear she hadn’t felt since arriving to Jordan 10 years ago. Ahead of the meeting,...