KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia announced Saturday that it will move to suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain deal that has seen more than 9 million tons of grain exported from Ukraine during the war and has brought down soaring global food prices. The Russian Defense Ministry...

The political activist and former member of the "National Coalition", lawyer Marwan Hajo Al-Rifai died on Saturday of a heart attack in Istanbul. The opposition's activists and media news sites mourned Al-Rifai, 57,  expressing their grief over the loss of the former prisoner who...

The Jordanian army said on Friday that it had thwarted the smuggling of large quantities of narcotics into the territory of the kingdom from Syria. The army said in a statement: "Border Guard forces, in coordination with the Military Security Directorate and the Anti-Narcotics Department,...

Ten years after fleeing war in her native Syria, Hadeel is expecting a third child, brought into a life of poverty and uncertainty at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The squalid camp, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital Amman, is home to some 80,000 Syrian refugees, according...

The Syrian intelligence officer at the centre of one of the most shocking acts of the civil war – the Tadamon massacre – is still working on a military base outside Damascus and has since been accused by colleagues of directing up to a dozen more mass killings. Amjad Yousef, a major in one...

BERLIN (AP) — A former hotel in eastern Germany that was supposed to be used as accommodation for refugee families starting next week was targeted Friday in what authorities believe was an anti-foreigner arson attack. Police said windows were broken and a fire broke out shortly after 5 a.m....

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces attacked Russia's hold on the southern city of Kherson on Thursday while fighting intensified in the country's east. The battles came amid reports that Moscow-appointed authorities have abandoned the city, joining tens of thousands of residents who fled to...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon signed and delivered its copy of a U.S.-mediated sea border deal with Israel on Thursday to a U.S. mediator, hoping to soon start exploring gas in its southern maritime blocs to bring economic stability to the crisis-ridden country. The agreement to demarcate the...

Syrian and Russian troops conducted joint military drills in Syria involving ground and air forces, Syrian state media reported Wednesday. Russian and Syrian troops simulated attacking enemy positions under the cover of artillery shelling and airstrikes by warplanes and helicopters,...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees boarded a convoy of trucks laden with mattresses, blankets, water and fuel tanks — and, in one case, a goat — in the remote Lebanese mountain town of Arsal on Wednesday, heading home to Syria. Their journey is the latest attempt by Beirut to organize a mass...

Israeli airstrikes targeted sites in the vicinity of Damascus early Thursday, marking the third such strikes in a week, Syrian state media reported. The Syrian military said that Israeli missiles were fired at posts near Damascus around 12:30 a.m. and that its air defenses had “confronted...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Archaeologists in northern Iraq last week unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees from the Assyrian Empire, an archaeologist said Wednesday. The carvings on marble slabs were discovered by a team of experts in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city,...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's military targeted more than 40 villages around Ukraine over the past day, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, killing at least two civilians and sustaining the terror that forces people into air raid shelters each night. Russian forces launched five rockets, 30...

The country is facing its worst economic crisis since the war began, as well as a deadly cholera outbreak that is rapidly spreading.  Mr. Pedersen reported on his recent “busy period of diplomatic engagement” with key Syrian and international stakeholders, including in connection with...

The US-backed opposition militia formerly known as "Maghawir al-Thawra" changed its name to "the Free Syrian Army" on Tuesday as part of a series of recent changes to the faction’s leadership and priorities. The Free Syrian Army is responsible for the 55-kilometer de-militarised zone on the...

Militant group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, has largely withdrawn from Turkish-controlled Afrin, almost two weeks after seizing the northern city, several sources with knowledge on the matter told Middle East Eye. HTS, designated a terrorist group by Turkey...

Lebanon said Tuesday it will not forcibly return Syrian refugees to their home country. "We will not force any displaced Syrian to return to Syria," General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim told a press conference in the capital Beirut. Ibrahim denied any foreign pressure on...

The US on Monday designated three Syrian regime military officials involved in a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, in 2013. "Of the atrocities committed by the Assad regime, some of which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity, few are as inhumane...

RIYADH, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Tuesday some countries were using their emergency stocks to manipulate markets when their purpose should be to mitigate any shortages of supply.

Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (AP) — In nearly every corner of the globe, people are spending more on food and fuel, rent and transportation. But inflation isn't affecting people equally. For migrants with relatives relying on money they send back, higher prices are pinching families twice: at...