BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. official in Syria on Friday called for an “immediate de-escalation” following days of deadly airstrikes and shelling along the Syria-Turkey border, saying the actions destabilize the region and undermine the fight against the Islamic State group. Turkey this week...

Natalia Kristenko’s dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight. City workers were at first too overwhelmed to retrieve her as they responded to a deadly barrage of attacks that shook Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson. The 62-year-old had...

BEIRUT (AP) — Two newly elected Lebanese lawmakers, including an activist who had pledged to fight corruption, lost their parliament seats on Thursday following an appeals process before the country's constitutional council. Ramy Finge, a dentist and pro-democracy activist from the northern...

Most of the regime-held areas have come under a suffocating transport crisis as a result of the reduction of fuel requests for gas stations by more than 50 percent, in addition to an increase in the duration of diesel and gasoline shipments to more than two weeks. Many observers wondered...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he would carry out a land invasion into Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Turkey has launched a barrage of airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Syria and Iraq in recent days, in retaliation for a deadly November...

Huge fires erupted at an oilfield in northeast Syria after they were targeted by Turkish airstrikes. Thick plumes of smoke were seen rising from the facility in Qahtaniya on Wednesday. In recent days, Turkey has launched a barrage of airstrikes on suspected militant targets in northern...

 An explosion in Syria has killed an official with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the force said on its website Wednesday, blaming Israel for the killing. The force identified the officer killed as Col. Davoud Jafari, who it said was working for the Guard's aerospace division....

A powerful earthquake jolted Türkiye’s northwestern Duzce province early Wednesday, leaving a total of 35 people injured in the region, including in Istanbul, according to the country’s health minister. In a Twitter post, Fahrettin Koca said a total of 32 people were injured in Duzce, where...

Overjoyed fans erupted in celebration around the Arab world Tuesday after Saudi Arabia’s shocking World Cup win over Argentina. From Syria and Jordan to Gaza and Qatar — host of this year’s World Cup -- fans basked in Saudi Arabia's achievement, one of the biggest upsets in the tournament’s...

A rocket attack on the northwestern Syrian city of Azaz killed five civilians and wounded five others on Tuesday, a nurse at a local hospital and a local activist said. The dead included a child and four men, the nurse at the hospital in Azaz and the activist told Reuters. According to...

ANKARA (AP) — Turkey’s president again hinted at a possible new ground offensive in Syria against Kurdish militants on Tuesday, as Syrian forces denounced new airstrikes and Russia urged restraint and called on Ankara to avoid an escalation. Russian presidential envoy in Syria Alexander...

Arab football fans are rejoicing as the FIFA World Cup, which kicked off in Qatar on Sunday, is being held in the Middle East for the very first time. Hundreds of supporters across the region are flying out to Doha for what they told Al Arabiya English is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Suspected Kurdish militants in Syria fired rockets across the border into Turkey on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others, Turkish officials said. The attack followed deadly airstrikes by Turkey on suspected militant targets in Syria and Iraq. One...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities have begun evacuating civilians from recently liberated sections of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, fearing that a lack of heat, power and water due to Russian shelling will make living conditions too difficult this winter. The World Health...

Thousands of people on Monday attended the funeral ceremony of 11 people killed by a Turkish airstrike in Syria. Family members, relatives, and a large number of people carried the coffins of those who died from a hospital to a funeral square, and finally to a cemetery. Syrian Democratic...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian security forces used heavy gunfire against protesters in a Kurdish town in the country's west on Monday, killing at least five during an anti-government protest that erupted at the funeral of two people killed the day before, activists said. Videos...

LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for a British woman whose U.K. citizenship was removed after she travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group argued Monday that she should have been treated as a child trafficking victim. Shamima Begum, now 23, was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Powerful explosions from shelling shook Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant, the global nuclear watchdog said Sunday, calling for “urgent measures to help prevent a nuclear accident” in the Russian-occupied facility. A heavy...

Al Khor, Qatar – World Cup hosts Qatar have had a disappointing start to their campaign, with a 2-0 defeat to Ecuador leaving them facing an uphill struggle to make it out of their group in their first-ever World Cup. It looked like Qatar had conceded a goal within three minutes of kick-off...

Kickoff is just hours away! Hosts Qatar  will face  Ecuador in the opening match at 7pm (16:00 GMT), marking the start of the  first-ever  World Cup held in the Middle East. Over a  decade of preparation  has led to this point, with fans watching a spectacle...