BERLIN (AP) — An external power line to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — the biggest in Europe — was repaired on Sunday after shelling disconnected the facility from the grid and forced it to resort to emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said. The International...

The Turkish army has neutralized members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the borders of the "Euphrates Shield" area, east of Aleppo province, the Turkish Defense ministry said on Sunday.   The Ministry of Defense said in a statement today, Sunday, that the Turkish armed...

A Russian missile barrage that crumbled apartment buildings and houses in Ukraine's city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least dozen people, Ukrainian officials said Sunday as Moscow strained to enforce its takeover of illegally annexed territory. The blasts that collapsed at least one high-rise...

The U.S. military said late on Saturday that unidentified forces fired a rocket at a compound in Syria hosting U.S. troops and partnered local forces, but failed to cause any injuries or damage. The military, in a short statement, said the 107 mm rocket failed to impact anything inside the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, damaging an important supply artery for the Kremlin's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine and hitting a towering symbol of Russian power in the region. Nobody...

The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has signed new agreements to purchase wheat from Russia. The Syrian minister of internal trade Amr Salem agreed during a meeting with Russian public sector company representatives to follow up on previous contracts for the supply of wheat to...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A truck bomb Saturday caused a fire and the collapse of a section of a bridge linking Russia-annexed Crimea with Russia, Russian officials said, damaging a key supply artery for Moscow's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. The speaker of Crimea’s Kremlin-backed...

SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Anti-government demonstrations erupted Saturday in several locations across Iran as the most sustained protests in years against a deeply entrenched theocracy entered their fourth week. At least two people were killed. Marchers chanted anti-government slogans and...

A prominent Syrian opposition activist was assassinated in northern Syria on Friday alongside his pregnant wife. Muhammad Abdullatif, known as Abu Ghannoum, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the city of Al-Bab in the Aleppo governorate. The area is under the control of the "Syrian National...

Major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have decided to slash the amount of oil they deliver to the global economy. And the law of supply and demand suggests that can only mean one thing: higher prices are on the way for crude, and for the diesel fuel, gasoline and...

A Russian warplane carried out two air strikes on Friday targeting the Sheikh Bahr area in the northern countryside of Idlib, while the Russian-backed forces and militias conducted air-ground military exercises in Jabal al-Akrad region, northeast of Latakia province, northwest of Syria....

As he turns 70, Russian President Vladimir Putin finds himself in the eye of a storm of his own making: His army is suffering humiliating defeats in Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Russians are fleeing his mobilization order, and his top lieutenants are publicly insulting military leaders....

US forces killed three senior Islamic State leaders in two separate military operations in Syria Thursday, including a rare ground raid in a portion of the northeast that is controlled by the Syrian regime, US officials said. According to officials, US special operations forces conducted a...

 ,  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he could meet with Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad when the time was right and would not rule that out, reinforcing tentative recent steps to thaw ties between combatants in Syria's war. "As of now such a meeting is not on...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country's first case of cholera in decades. The announcement comes as neighboring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has spread across the country over the past month. Lebanon began...

PRAGUE (AP) — Leaders from around 44 countries are gathering Thursday to launch a “European Political Community” aimed at boosting security and economic prosperity across the continent, with Russia the one major European power not invited. The meeting in the Czech capital Prague is the...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany brought home four women and seven children Wednesday from a camp in northeastern Syria where suspected members of the Islamic State group have been held, along with a young man who was taken to Syria as an 11-year-old, officials said. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock...

The Assad regime has confiscated farmlands owned by refugees and displaced citizens in rural Idlib, northern Syria, local sources said Tuesday. The regime’s Agriculture Ministry seized the farmlands with claims it would cultivate the lands and reap their returns, the sources said. "The...

The Syrian regime's war against the revolution has changed the shape and structure of the state at all levels, and cost the country $650 billion. According to official statistics, the gross domestic product (GDP) has declined from about $60 billion in 2011 when the war started to less than...

Washington - Ali Barada Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the former commander of the UK and NATO chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) forces, warned that strategic nuclear weapons can change the planet as we know it. Russia and the West, including the US, UK, and France, have...