LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s first prime minister of color after being chosen Monday to lead a governing Conservative Party desperate for a safe pair of hands to guide the country through economic and political turbulence. The challenges facing...

LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean region told staff in an email that he is “very disturbed” by allegations reported by The Associated Press that the U.N. health agency’s Syria director misspent millions, abused staff and violated the organization’s...

At least 130 tents of seven IDP camps in Idlib province have been damaged due to a rainstorm that swept northern Syria the past 72 hours, monitoring groups said Sunday.   The Syrian Network for Human Rights appealed to international relief organizations, including the United Nations...

BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader in decades, increased his dominance when he was named Sunday to another term as head of the ruling Communist Party in a break with tradition and promoted allies who support his vision of tighter control over society and the...

An unidentified drone targeted the US base in the al-Omar gas field in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city with a barrage of missiles, pro-Iran media outlet reported on Saturday. Several blasts were heard in the US base in the al-Omar field, the sources told Iran-funded Al-Mayadeen TV...

In the last, brief conversations Viktoria Skliar had with her detained boyfriend, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was making tentative plans for life after his release in an upcoming exchange with Russia. The next time Skliar saw Oleksii Kisilishin, he was dead — one of several bodies in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country's...

A news website close to the Syrian regime's intelligence services revealed that discussions with the Algerian side to buy domestic gas began in 2016, but Algeria always asked to wait for fear of US sanctions and pressures. And the "Syriasteps" website reported that it seems that developments...

A southeastern city in Iran that was the scene of a bloody crackdown last month awoke to new destruction on Saturday, state TV showed, after tensions erupted the day before. Meanwhile, witnesses said antigovernment protests erupted at several universities in Tehran amid heavy security on...

ROME (AP) — Nearly 300 migrants disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto on Saturday after their rescue at sea in five different operations by the crew of a humanitarian vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders. About half of the 293 rescued passengers on the Geo Barents were...

An aid convoy of the World Food Program (WFP) crossed the regime-held areas controlled to opposition-controlled areas in the eastern countryside of Idlib city, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Saturday. At least 18 trucks loaded with food baskets and flour entered this afternoon from the...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Israel carried out an airstrike on the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs late Friday, in the first such attack in more than a month, state media reported. There were no casualties in the strikes. The Syrian military said later that several Israeli missiles...

BEIRUT -- Syrian authorities found a mass grave in the historic town of Palmyra with bodies of victims of the militant Islamic State group, which controlled the area years ago, Syria's state news agency said Friday. According to the report on SANA, the mass grave was discovered near the...

Turkish security forces have been accused of preventing hundreds of Syrian migrants from crossing into Greece, a representative of the migrant group organising a convoy dubbed "Caravan of Light" said on Wednesday. "We wanted to cross the border and they refused," a spokesperson for the group...

The Syria Response Coordinator Team said that thousands of Syrian families in northwest Syria are facing the beginning of winter amid poverty and destitution, amid expectations that temperatures will drop dramatically in the coming months. The local relief group said in a statement that...

The Jordanian authorities announced Thursday that the number of Syrian refugees returning to their country within 9 months has reached 3,325 people. She stated that the number of Syrians returning from 2016 until the end of last September was 341,500, of whom 64,278 were Syrian refugees...

LONDON (AP) — Staffers at the World Health Organization’s Syrian office have alleged that their boss mismanaged millions of dollars, plied government officials with gifts -- including computers, gold coins and cars -- and acted frivolously as COVID-19 swept the country. More than 100...

A group of families appealed to the missing youth in the "death boat" that sank off Arwad Island in Tartus province on September 20 to reveal the fate of their sons, accusing the Assad regime and its intelligence of being responsible for their disappearance, especially since the missing are only...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When a missile struck a power station less than a mile from his apartment on the outskirts of Kyiv, Oleksander Maystrenko didn’t panic, run to a bomb shelter or consider evacuating, even though he lives close to what suddenly has become the Russian military's main target in...

France said on Thursday it carried out a new operation to return French nationals - 40 children and 15 women - from Kurdish-run camps in northeastern Syria.  The children were handed over to the child care services and will have medical and social follow-ups, the foreign ministry said...