The Iraqi National Security Adviser held a security conference in Baghdad on Saturday to urge European Union countries to take back their citizens from al Hol camp in Syria. The conference was held at the Al-Nahrain Center for Strategic Studies and was attended by the Special representative...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s political opposition ousted the country’s embattled prime minister in a no-confidence vote early Sunday, which they won after several of Imran Khan’s allies and a key coalition party deserted him. The combined opposition that spans the political spectrum from the...

KYIV, Ukraine — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has traveled to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in show of solidarity. The two leaders meeting Saturday will discuss the “UK’s long term support to Ukraine’’ including a new package of financial and military aid, the prime...

Russian warplanes on Saturday renewed their airstrikes using high-explosive missiles on the Jabal al-Zawiya region in the northern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in northern Syria.   Informed rebel sources said that two Russian warplanes carried out eight raids on Saturday...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Civilian evacuations moved forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine on Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station where thousands clamored to leave before an expected Russian onslaught....

A report by "Hashtag Syria" reviewed the possible effects on the Syrian economy if the Lebanese economy were declared bankrupt. The pro-regime news website indicated that the first effects will affect the flow of Egyptian gas supplies and Jordanian electricity to Lebanon, which were...

Twelve years into the war in Syria, thousands of families “remain in the dark” when it comes to the fates of their missing relatives, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the General Assembly on Friday.  “The scale of this tragedy is daunting, with people going missing in...

Geneva – All concerned parties should take urgent action to provide relief support to the displaced Syrians in the al-Rukban camp on Syria's southern border with Jordan as the humanitarian crisis intensifies with the depletion of basic materials, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a...

More than $1.5bn (£1.2bn) worth of personal property including cars, olive groves, shops, houses, electronics and jewellery has been seized by the Syrian government from citizens accused of joining anti-government protests, according to a rights group. The Association of Detainees and the...

Zaman al-Wasl uncovers the networks involved in the Captagon production in Syria and the role of Assad's men in smuggling and promotion. The 22-year-old Sobhi, Zaman al-Wasl contacted him through a mediator, confirmed that Cannabis and narcotic pills are “easily available if you...

A missile hit a train station where thousands of people had gathered to flee in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 50 on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said, as workers unearthed bodies from a mass grave in a town that has become the center of war crimes allegations against Russian troops....

LONDON (AP) — The board chairman of Russian metals company Rusal has called for an investigation into events in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where Ukrainian officials say Russian troops killed civilians. Rusal Chairman Bernard Zonneveld, an independent non-executive director, did not address...

UEDEM, Germany (AP) — As Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine accelerated early this year, military planners at NATO began preparing to dispatch scores of fighter jets and surveillance aircraft into the skies near Russia and Ukraine. It was a warning to Moscow not to make the mistake of...

The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United States and Ukraine have called war crimes. It was a rare, if not unprecedented...

The Turkish authorities have deported 34 displaced Syrians holding a "temporary protection" (Kimlik) card to the Idlib region through the "Bab al-Hawa" border crossing separating the two countries, north of Idlib province, under coercion and torture, during the past 48 hours. One of the...

LONDON (AP) — A man accused of stabbing a British lawmaker to death during a regular meeting with his constituents told a court Thursday he targeted the politician because he voted for air strikes on Syria. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, is accused of murdering veteran Conservative lawmaker David Amess...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced Thursday it would send its ambassador back to Lebanon after a diplomatic spat last year. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported that the kingdom made the decision after the “calls and appeals of the moderate national political...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and the International Monetary Fund on Thursday reached a tentative agreement for comprehensive economic policies that could eventually pave the way for some relief for the crisis-hit country, after Beirut implements wide-ranging reforms. The four-year agreement, which...

PARIS (AP) — The International Energy Agency said Thursday that its member countries are releasing 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves on top of previous U.S. pledges to take aim at energy prices that have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine. The Paris-based organization...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine told residents of its industrial heartland to leave while they still can and urged Western nations to send “weapons, weapons, weapons” Thursday after Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup for an offensive in the country's east....