SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Thursday pulled back its forces from a Black Sea where they have faced relentless Ukrainian attacks, but kept up its push to encircle the last bulwark of Ukraine's resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it withdrew...

MADRID (AP) — NATO faced rebukes from Moscow and Beijing on Thursday after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges ” to global stability. The Western military alliance was wrapping up a summit in Madrid, where it issued a stark warning that the world has...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced cutting ties with Syria after Damascus recognized the independence of Ukraine’s two separatist republics. “There will no longer be relations between Ukraine and Syria,” Zelensky said in a video on Telegram. Earlier on Wednesday, the...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said Wednesday. The driver along with two other...

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) — The mall was nothing extraordinary, but in the middle of a war it was an escape for those in this Ukrainian city who had decided not to flee. Then it exploded in a Russian airstrike. In moments on Monday afternoon, a summer hangout became a hellish inferno. Life...

PARIS (AP) — Over the course of an extraordinary nine-month trial, the lone survivor of the Islamic State extremist team that attacked Paris in 2015 has proclaimed his radicalism, wept, apologized to victims and pleaded with judges to forgive his “mistakes.” For victims’ families and...

MADRID (AP) — NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into action — and to patch up any cracks in their unity over money and mission. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance was meeting in...

A media source revealed that the agreement achieved by Syrian regime head Bashar al-Assad during his recent visit to Iran is to supply Syria with all its actual needs of oil, amounting to three million barrels per month. The Damascus-based source indicated that after the arrival of more...

The first 10 years of Syria’s conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians, the United Nations said Tuesday - the highest official estimate to date of conflict-related civilian deaths in the country. The conflict began with anti-government protests that broke out in...

Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding a leaders’ summit in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades triggered by the war in Ukraine. After urgent top-level talks, alliance Secretary-General Jens...

A drone strike by the U.S.-led coalition in northwestern Syria killed a senior member of an al-Qaida-linked group, Syrian opposition activists and the U.S. military said Tuesday. The attack on the suspected militant, who was riding a motorcycle at the time, came shortly before midnight on...

The US military said it conducted a “kinetic strike” overnight Monday in Syria in an operation that targeted a senior al-Qaeda-linked terrorist. “CENTCOM Forces conducted a kinetic strike in Idlib province, Syria, June 27, targeting Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a senior leader of Hurras al-Din, an...

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian long-range bombers fired a missile that struck a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine's central city of Kremenchuk on Monday, raising fears of what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an “unimaginable” number of victims in “one of the most daring terrorist attacks...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Sunday issues its 11th annual report on torture in Syria, marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which falls annually on June 26.  In the latest report, SNHR reveals that torture has been used as a systemic...

A human rights group has documented the death of 636 Palestinian refugees,  34 women and two children, under torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime since 2011. On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In one of the combat zones against Russia, the supply chief for a Ukrainian fighting brigade places his online order for war supplies — a long list ranging from drones, trucks and thermal sights to batteries, generators and tape. They are needed, he writes, to equip two new...

Russia has been trying to prove its military presence in Syria since the beginning of the war on Ukraine, by provoking the US-led International Coalition forces deployed on the territory of Syria, in addition to carrying out military campaigns against Islamic State pockets in the regime-held...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iraq’s caretaker prime minister met with Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday, state TV reported, on a visit aimed at reactivating Baghdad-mediated talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi officially received Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who was slated...

Hundreds of Syrian paratroopers took part in joint exercises with their Russian counterparts in the war-torn country, in the second joint maneuvers this month, state media reported on Sunday. The agency did not give further details about the drills or say where they took place, adding that...

The number of Syrian refugees in Jordan has reached 1.3 million, of whom 83 percent live outside the camps, while the number of registered refugees with the High Commissioner is 670,000,  said the director of Zaatari camp on Saturday. Colonel Ali Al-Qudat pointed out in the Fifth...