KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a string of attacks Monday against rail and fuel installations deep inside Ukraine, far from the front lines of Moscow's new eastern offensive, in a bid to thwart Ukrainian efforts to marshal supplies for the fight. The U.S., meanwhile, moved to rush...

Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a more lenient touch to policing content on the social media platform where he — the world's richest person — promotes his interests, attacks critics and opines on a wide range of issues to more than 83...

Twitter’s board is negotiating with CEO Elon Musk over his bid to buy the social media platform and a deal could be announced as early as Monday, according to media reports. Twitter and Musk negotiated into the early hours Monday over his bid to buy the social media platform, The New York...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Funerals were held across northern Lebanon on Monday for seven people killed when a boat packed with migrants sank over the weekend as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore. The small vessel was carrying nearly 60 people — many times its capacity — when...

At least 30 poisoning cases were recorded amid IDPs in northern Idlib province, as a result of eating Ramadan breakfast meals distributed by a humanitarian organization within two camps. Zaman Al-Wasl correspondent confirmed that, after midnight on Sunday, the Syrian Civil Defense rescued...

NEAR THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER (AP) — American Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday after a secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv that Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy is committed to winning his country's fight against Russia and that the United...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the war-torn country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia's invasion. The meeting with U.S. Secretary of State...

The displaced Syrian families continue to leave the desert Rukban camp, located on the Syrian-Jordanian border, towards regime-controlled areas, without any guarantees that these families will not be exposed to the risks of arrest or enforced disappearance.   Maher al-Ali, head of the...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Survivors of a doomed migrant boat blamed the Lebanese navy on Sunday for sinking it, saying a naval vessel rammed the packed ship while trying to force it back to shore. Meanwhile the death toll of Saturday night's disaster rose to seven, with state media reporting...

The Syrian Education Ministry acknowledged the spread of lice in schools in Damascus and its countryside, but denied that it was related to poor hygiene. The director of School Health in Damascus, Hatoon Al-Tawashi, claimed that the spread of lice in schools is not new and there are...

Syrian economists assume that the Syrian Central Bank is causing a stagnation in the real estate market through measures aimed at withdrawing liquidity from the market, in addition to the many fees and taxes, which caused the Syrians to refrain from buying and selling real estate. Analyst...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces called in airstrikes on a besieged steel factory in the southern city of Mariupol to try to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops holding out in the strategic port, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet in Kyiv...

 The Lebanese military Sunday recovered the bodies of eight migrants whose boat carrying at least 56 people capsized the night before, raising the death toll to nine, state media reported. The National News Agency said the eight bodies were found near a small island off the coast of the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday in an attempt to crush the last pocket of resistance in a place of deep symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Ukrainian officials said....

Turkish air space has been closed to military and civilian planes carrying troops from Russia to Syria after consultation with Moscow, Turkey's state broadcaster TRT Haber cited Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying on Saturday. NATO member Turkey has good relations with both Russia...

Russian warplanes on Friday night carried out several air strikes using high-explosive air-to-air missiles, targeting several areas in northern Idlib province.   Military sources in the Al-Fateh Al-Mubeen operations room told Zaman al-Wasl that Russian warplanes took off from the Hmeimim...

One child has died but more than 40 people have been saved after the sinking of a boat off the coast of Lebanon’s northern port city of Tripoli on Saturday, transport minister Ali Hamie told Reuters. The Lebanese Red Cross said in a tweet that there were about 60 people onboard. The...

Christians in Syria's northwestern Idlib province have been performing their religious duties freely, said Hanna Celluf, the archpriest of Qunayah Church. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Celluf said: "No one disturbs us while we are performing our prayers. No one harasses us. We don't come...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday while attempting to crush the last corner of resistance in a place of deep symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Ukrainian officials said....

Syrians could be jailed for up to 15 years for minor criticism of the Assad regime following amendments to existing cybercrime laws. The draconian new changes were announced this week, laying out harsh penalties for vaguely worded offences including online criticism of the president,...