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Zelenskyy calls liberation of Kherson 'beginning of the end'

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy triumphantly walked the streets of the newly liberated city of Kherson on Monday, hailing Russia's withdrawal as the “beginning of the end of the war,” but also acknowledging the heavy price Ukrainian troops are paying in their grinding...

Funeral of Turkey blast victim as Syrian woman held

Funerals were held Monday for the six victims who died in Sunday's bombing in Istanbul, including a funeral for Arzu Ozsoy and her 15-year-old daughter Yagmur Ucar. Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed...

Turkey arrests 1, suspects Kurdish militants behind bombing

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect who is believed to have planted the bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul, Turkey’s interior minister said Monday, adding that initial findings indicate that Kurdish militants were responsible for the deadly attack....

Four Syrians shot dead in Tartous family land dispute

Four members of the same family were brutally murdered in Tartous, western Syria over a family dispute on Friday.  The interior ministry of the Syrian regime said in an announcement via Facebook that a man in the district of Khirbet al-Maaza had shot and killed his brother, his wife and...

Unemployment rates in northern Syria rise to 85%

The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed that unemployment rates in northwest Syria have reached 85 percent, stressing that the issue of unemployment within the local community is one of the most pressing issues that need radical solutions. According to the statement of the local...

What US election results mean for the future of Ukraine aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — If Republicans win the House, where does that leave Ukraine? It's a question that is top of mind in Washington as the GOP draws closer to winning the majority in the U.S. House. Some fear the end of Democratic control in Congress — and the empowerment of “America First”...

Russia claims all troops gone from city in southern Ukraine

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that it finished pulling out its troops from the western bank of the river that divide's Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, including the only provincial capital that Moscow had captured since invading the neighboring country....

Migrant rescue ship docks in French port amid Italy rift

NICE, France (AP) — A maritime rescue ship docked in a southern French port Friday carrying 230 migrants whose fates sparked a diplomatic row between France and Italy, as well as fury from far-right rivals of the French government. The Ocean Viking disembarked its passengers at the Toulon...

Syria increases gas production, hopes for more electricity

Newly installed turbine compressors at a gas facility in central Syria will lead to a production increase that will help ease the war-torn country’s electricity crisis, officials at the sprawling facility said Wednesday. The Syrian Gas Co. facility in the central province of Homs suffered a...

Opposition areas record 82 suicides in 2022

The Syrian opposition-held areas recorded a new suicide case of a displaced person residing in northern Aleppo countryside, bringing the number of suicides to 82 cases, 29 of which were "unsuccessful". Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl that an IDP from the town of Meng committed suicide ...

Syrian refugee gets 17 years in church bomb plot case

A Syrian refugee has been sentenced to more than 17 years in what authorities said was a plot to plot to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 24, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on a guilty plea last year to a federal charge of attempting to...

Berlin turns former airport into refugee shelter

Berlin is turning a former airport into a temporary refugee shelter with 3,600 beds, as it struggles to put up more Ukrainians fleeing Russia's attacks on their country's vital infrastructure, as well as the winter weather. While two former terminals of Tegel Airport were already opened for...

Laws and customs in Qatar ahead of 2022 World Cup

Over a million sports fans will go to Qatar for the World Cup in November and December, a spectacle that typically turns host countries into a nonstop party. But this year may be different. The tiny, conservative Muslim nation may show little tolerance for the booze-fueled hooliganism that...