A human rights group confirmed that the Syrian security services have tightened their security measures against the residents of Al-Hussainiya camp in Damascus suburbs since last week. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said that the members of the security detachment at the entrance...

A five-year-old Syrian refugee is believed to have died on Tuesday on an unnamed Greek islet in the Evros River from a scorpion sting, according to reports. The young girl was among a group of 39 refugees and asylum seekers, who claim she died after the incident, Al Jazeera reported. The...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu revealed on Thursday that he briefly met his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in October on the margins of the Non-Aligned Movement summit. Speaking at a news conference, Cavusoglu said he told Mekdad that "we need to somehow come to terms with the...

Turkey's national human rights body has filed a lawsuit against a government-run deportation centre over the alleged mistreatment of refugees, the organisation announced on Tuesday. Enab Baladi first reported that the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TIHEK) had found abuses...

Returning to their orchards after years of war, Syrian pistachio farmers hoping to revive their valuable crop have had their hopes dashed by scorched trees and the ravages of climate change. Laden with maroon-colored bunches of nuts that are harvested in summer, the pistachio tree is known...

A truck carrying Syrian migrants believed to have entered from neighboring Greece overturned on a road in North Macedonia, injuring 35 people, police said Thursday. A police statement said 49 people were in the heavy vehicle during the crash late Wednesday near the southern village of...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Some of the world’s most prized works of contemporary Western art have been unveiled for the first time in decades — in Tehran. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric, rails against the influence of the West. Authorities have lashed out at “deviant” artists...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent a significant escalation in the war. Russia denied any aircraft were...

Joe Biden has said that the US knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government is holding Austin Tice – an American journalist who has been missing for a decade – and called on Damascus to release him. Ten years after the freelance reporter disappeared while reporting on the Syrian war,...

A humanitarian campaign was launched at the Al-Rukban IDP camp on Monday to distribute water and food to families in need, after months of punishing water and food shortage. The campaign - Save Rukban Camp - was launched by Molham Volunteer Team, a Syrian humanitarian NGO....

A Turkish drone strike Tuesday killed at least four people in a northeast Syrian city held by Kurdish forces, the latest in a flurry of attacks, a war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack struck near a hospital in Qamishli, the capital of a...

Police announced Tuesday that they have detained a “primary suspect” in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose deaths sparked fear in Muslim communities nationwide. Police Chief Harold Medina made the announcement on Twitter, saying that authorities had tracked...

The leader of the Islamic State group in southern Syria blew himself up on Tuesday after being surrounded by former members of the opposition factions, a local monitoring group said.   The Ahrar Horan Gathering said that "Abu Salem Al-Iraqi" was killed after he detonated an explosive...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops killed three Palestinians and wounded dozens in a shootout Tuesday during an arrest raid in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The shootout came a day after a cease-fire ended three days of fighting between...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition and other material to Ukraine...

Located in the desert of northeastern Jordan, some 10 km from the border with Syria, the Zaatari camp is the largest Syrian refugee camp in the kingdom, temporarily accommodating more than 80,000 refugees who fled the Syrian war. A decade after the camp first opened its gates in late July...

The Syrian regime's Ministry of Internal Trade raised the price of petrol by 127 per cent, the third increase this year, the SANA news agency reported. The agency said the ministry has decided to raise the price of subsidised petrol from 1,100 liras per litre to 2,500 liras. It also raised...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s caretaker prime minister took a gamble with his preemptive strike against Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza, less than three months before he is to compete in general elections to retain his job. Yair Lapid had counted on Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers to stay...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — With a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants holding after nearly three days of violence, Gaza’s sole power plant resumed operations Monday as Israel began reopening crossings into the territory. Israel also lifted security restrictions on southern...

Many fires erupted in separate areas of northwestern Syria, causing great losses to civilian property, the Syrian Civil Defense said on Monday. According to the rescue agency, 7 fires broke out on Sunday, two of which were in forested forests in Deir Othman and Ain Bunduq areas in the...