Syrian protesters blocked a main road in the country's northeast after the region's Kurdish-led authorities announced they will cut electricity for a fortnight to carry out maintenance at a gas station, according to reports Thursday. The energy office for the Kurdish-led administration's...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan protesters began to retreat from government buildings they seized and military troops reinforced security at the Parliament on Thursday, establishing a tenuous calm in a country in both economic meltdown and political limbo. Embattled President Gotabaya...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles that struck a city in central Ukraine killed at least 20 people and wounding about 90 more Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said. The country's president called the attack “an open act of terrorism” against civilians in locations without military value....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor called Thursday for an “overarching strategy” to coordinate efforts to bring perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine to justice. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24,...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian police said Wednesday they have detained a Syrian man for illegally transporting 17 migrants, as the country's foreign minister said the country planned to start dismantling a razor wire on the border with Croatia will start soon. Police on Tuesday...

Joe Biden opened his first visit to the Mideast as president on Wednesday by declaring a “bone deep” bond between the United States and Israel and pledging to strengthen economic connections between the two countries going forward. He did not mention one of the larger goals of his visit:...

The number of asylum applications increased in the regions of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany during the first half of 2022, according to the local Welt newspaper. The newspaper stated in a report that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees registered 16,067 applications from...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping in shaky trading on Wall Street Wednesday after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be even worse than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower after tumbling as much as 1.6% earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was...

Unidentified gunmen assassinated two collaborators with Military Security in southern Daraa province, which witnesses a continuation of assassinations, the frequency of which increased after the regime took control of the province in the summer of 2018, activists said on Wednesday. No group...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With thousands of sanctions already imposed on Russia to flatten its economy, the U.S. and its allies are working on new measures to starve the Russian war machine while also stopping the price of oil and gasoline from soaring to levels that could crush the global economy....

MOSCOW (AFP)- Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to discuss Syria during a visit to Tehran next Tuesday, the Kremlin said. It will be Putin’s second foreign trip since the start of Moscow’s armed intervention...

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday extending humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest for just six months in a victory for Russia. The vote was 12-0 with the United States, Britain and France abstaining. The three veto-wielding...

The US military says it has killed the leader of ISIL (ISIS) group in Syria in a drone strike outside Jandaris, northwest Syria, with another senior ISIL official “seriously injured”. Maher al-Agal, one of the top five ISIL leaders was killed, said US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Tuesday in...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday that their forces targeted a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine with overnight, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media. The Ukrainian military’s southern command said a rocket strike targeted the depot in...

Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday said it believes Russia is turning to Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in its ongoing war in Ukraine. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said it was unclear whether...

Germany's Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said on Monday in Prague that it was "difficult to say" whether the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will resume gas flows after its planned maintenance is completed on July 21st. "Nobody can see inside (Vladimir) Putin's head," Habeck, who is also Federal...

The US is planning to build a diplomatic complex on private property confiscated from Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, a rights organization said Sunday. In a statement, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said they have found new evidence that the land on...

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan. Here's a global look at other high-profile assassinations in the 21st century: — Oct. 15, 2021: British lawmaker David Amess...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees refuses to send Syrian refugees back to their country from Lebanon, a Lebanese minister has said, in an official response to a plan announced by a cabinet minister earlier this month. Minister of the Displaced in Lebanon’s caretaker government, Issam...