A Syrian military official said an Israeli attack targeted sites south of the capital Damascus early on Friday, Syrian state media reported. Syrian air defences intercepted the missiles and downed most of them, but the attack caused one civilian injury and some material damage, the official...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards militia on Wednesday burned three houses in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs, after storming and searching them, in an act of revenge against civilians whose relatives belonged to the "Islamic State" group. Zaman al-Wasl reporter...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The test couldn't have been much easier — and Facebook still failed. Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global...

The Biden administration has no plans to support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or lift sanctions on the regime, the top US diplomat for the Middle East said Wednesday. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf told US lawmakers...

The developments that Syria has witnessed since the outbreak of Russia’s war in Ukraine indicate that the entire region is on the verge of major events that are difficult to predict. There are distinct signs of Turkish determination to launch a military operation in northern Syria. This...

The Syrian Oil Minister  announced on Monday the entry of the "Zamlat Al-Mahra 1" gas well into production near the historic city of Palmyra in the Syrain desert. Minister Bassam Tohme indicated to the improvement of the electrical situation in the country during the next stage, as...

 A new study by the “Harmoon Center For Contemporary Studies examines the world of warlords who were formed in the regime’s areas and under its auspices during the years of war, those who created huge fortunes, filled financial voids formed by general conditions, and rose to the top of the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to travel to Turkey on Wednesday for talks expected to centre on the issue of establishing a mechanism that would allow Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea to global markets. Turkey is involved in efforts by the United Nations to...

 (Eqtsad)- A row between Israel and Lebanon over maritime borders is hampering energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean and risking exacerbating tensions between the two countries. After months of deadlock in US-mediated talks, Beirut on Sunday warned against any activity in the...

The rate of chickenpox infections in the al-Hussainiya camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus suburbs has increased significantly in recent times due to the scarcity of water and the lack of medical services provided to the people, monitoring group said. The Action Group for Palestinians...

Syria’s state television reported Tuesday that Israeli missiles targeted Syrian army positions south of the capital of Damascus, causing material damage but no casualties. , The TV quoted an unnamed military official as saying that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles while flying over...

Qatar, Kuwait and Iran summoned the Indian envoys on Sunday over insulting remarks on Islam's Prophet Muhammad by a spokesperson of India’s ruling party. In a statement, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Indian envoy to voice “disappointment of Qatar and its total rejection...

Cilvegözü (Turkey) (AFP) – Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid queue bumper-to-bumper amid the olive groves at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting to be allowed across into war-torn Syria. Inside are baby nappies and blankets, but also 15-kilo (33-pound) bags of flour, bulghur wheat, sugar,...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote Monday that could oust him from power, as discontent with his rule finally threatens to topple a politician who has often seemed invincible despite many scandals. The charismatic leader renowned for his ability...

Three civilians, including two children, were wounded in a terrorist attack in northwestern Syria on Monday. A car bomb detonated in the opposition-held Azaz district, causing casualties, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground. The injured people were taken to a...

Umm Ḩajrah (Syria) (AFP) – Moussa Fatimi's wheat field was once part of a thriving Syrian breadbasket. Now, he can't even grow enough to feed his family, and the land has been turned over to animals. Fatimi's crop has withered from a climate crisis, adding to fears of supply shortages...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin's new warning to the West against sending longer-range rocket systems to Ukraine came as his forces claimed to have destroyed Western military supplies in their first such airstrikes on Ukraine's capital in more than a month. The attack...

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal, a French Open champion for the 14th time at age 36, is, in obvious ways, different from Rafael Nadal, a French Open champion for the first time all the way back in 2005 at age 19. His hair is thinning on top. The chartreuse T-shirt he wore while overwhelming Casper...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine’s government with early Sunday airstrikes in Kyiv that it said destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt...

IRBIL, Iraq: Women and children held in Al-Hol, a sprawling camp of some 57,000 people in northeast Syria, endure squalid conditions and almost daily violence, meted out by its many hard-line inmates who still cling to the extremist ideology of Daesh. Violence is endemic inside the camp,...