GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations is racing to extend a deal that has allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, helping ease a global food crisis exacerbated by the war Russia launched more than a year ago. The breakthrough accord...

 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian air defenses thwarted an intense Russian air attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, shooting down all 18 missiles aimed at the capital with the help of Western-supplied weapons, officials said. Loud explosions boomed over Kyiv as the nighttime attack combined...

Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad received an invitation to attend the upcoming COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year, even as the yearslong war in his country over his rule grinds on. Assad's invite, late Monday, to the climate talks comes as the Syrian president already is...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with an increasingly firm grip for 20 years, was locked in a tight election race early Monday, with a make-or-break runoff against his chief challenger possible as the final votes were counted. The results, whether they come...

Election polls closed Sunday in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year leadership of the NATO member country grappling with economic turmoil and the erosion of democratic checks-and-balances hung in the balance after a strong challenge from an opposition candidate. The...

I ran-backed militias obtained a new air defense system on Saturday in order to enhance their military capabilities in Jemraya village In the northwestern suburbs of Damascus amid repeated Israeli strikes a well-informed military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The source revealed that...

, About 127,000 Syrians who obtained Turkish citizenship went Sunday morning to cast their votes in the 13th main selection elections in Turkey's history. The percentage of Syrians who obtained Turkish citizenship is 0.2% of the total number of those entitled to vote in elections in...

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — The leader of an insurgent group that rules much of northwest Syria rose to notoriety over the past decade by claiming deadly bombings, threatening revenge against Western “crusader” forces and dispatching Islamist religious police to crack down on women deemed to be...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is voting Sunday in landmark parliamentary and presidential elections that are expected to be tightly contested and could be the biggest challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has faced in his two decades in power. The vote will either grant the increasingly...

Israeli airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip continued for the fifth day as Palestinian armed groups strike back with rockets fired into Israel. An Anadolu reporter in Gaza said that Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on several residences in various localities of the Gaza Strip early...

Voting for presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye will begin at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT) Sunday and last until 5 p.m. (1400GMT). A total of 191,885 ballot boxes will be set up in 973 districts and 1,094 district election boards across the country to elect the president and...

ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy arrived in Rome on Saturday for talks with Italian officials and Pope Francis, who has said the Vatican has launched a behind-the-scenes initiative to try to end the war launched last year by Russia. “Today in Rome,″ Zelenskyy tweeted. ”I’m...

In a first visit by an Iranian president to the war-ravaged Arab country in 13 years, Ebrahim Raisi led a high-ranking delegation to Syria last week and returned with a bagful of cooperation pacts. Raisi was accompanied by ministers of foreign affairs, petroleum, defense, roads and urban...

 The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group has denounced as "baseless lies" reports that one of Syria’s most well-known drug dealers, who was killed earlier this week in an airstrike near the Jordanian border, was linked to the Iran-backed group. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is heading toward presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics over the past two decades, has never appeared more vulnerable to an opposition challenge. Erdogan has tightened his grip...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has parlayed his country's NATO membership and location straddling Europe and the Middle East into international influence during two decades in power. Like other world leaders with global ambitions, he finds his tenure imperiled by...

The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. By the end of...

A car bombing close to a police station near the Syrian capital wounded five officers on Wednesday, state media reported. The reports, citing the Interior Ministry, did not provide further details on the explosion in the neighborhood of Barzeh, just north of Damascus. The state SANA news...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained a new footage of a horrific massacre committed by the Syrian regime forces and loyal thugs against more than 200 children, women and men in the Ras al-Naba'a village in the coastal city of Baniyas in 2013. The clip showed the accumulation of victims, including...

Saudi Arabia and Syria will reopen diplomatic missions between the two countries now that relations have improved 11 years after the facilities were closed, the two nations foreign ministries said Tuesday. The announcements came nearly a month after Syria and Saudi Arabia said they were...