Syrian regime forces blocked a convoy of US military vehicles at a checkpoint in northeastern Syria during an ongoing patrol by US forces present in the area in support of the Kurdish-Syrian militias, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). It said the episode generated tension...

BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in southern China on Monday, officials said, in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade. There was no immediate word on survivors. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement the...

Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged strategic port city. Even as Russia intensified its attempt to pummel Mariupol into surrender, its offensive in...

The opposition's National Coalition on Mother's Day has praised the Syrian mothers' patience and courage throughout the long years of war where they lost tens of thousands of their beloved sons by the Assad regime. In a statement,  the key opposition group congratulated the Syrian...

LVIV, Ukraine — An ammonia leak at a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has contaminated an area with a radius of more than 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles), officials said early Monday. Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy didn’t say what caused the leak. The...

The Lebanese Hezbollah militia on Sunday sent new military reinforcements in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs. Zaman al-Wasl reporter, quoting private sources, said that the reinforcements came from the city of Deir Ezzor, including a convoy of 50 militants with...

A Dutch man from Arnhem was imprisoned and tortured by the Syrian regime in the early 2010s, according to an investigation by NRC . He likely died after four years of detention. These findings could result in legal action if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes the case in the Netherlands’...

Germany has agreed a contract with Qatar for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that will help the European country wean itself off its dependency on Russian energy. But the contract is a long-term solution and will do little to slow the current flow of European money into Russian...

A Palestinian rights monitor said at least 4,116 Palestinians in Syria lost their lives in the 11-year-old conflict, including 493 women and 252 children. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said since  the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, the situation of...

The heat on the train was as thick as the anxiety. Ukrainian survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in modern history were in the final minutes of their ride to relative safety. Some carried only what they had at hand when they seized the chance to escape the port of Mariupol amid...

KYIV, Ukraine — Authorities in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv say at least five civilians have been killed in the latest Russian shelling. Regional police in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, said the victims of the Russian artillery attack early Sunday included a 9-year-old boy....

The Syrian regime's media confirmed that the list of citizens' luxuries is expanding, to include new basic materials due to the insanely high prices and weak purchasing power. The state-run Tishreen newspaper reported on Saturday that talking about shopping for items such as meat,...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine's besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help. The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war's worst...

LVIV, Ukraine — The office of the Prosecutor General in Ukraine has accused Russian security and military forces of kidnapping a Ukrainian journalist covering the Russian offensive in the east and the south of Ukraine. In a Facebook statement Saturday, the Prosecutor General’s office...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Until the missiles struck within walking distance of the cathedrals and cafes downtown, Ukraine’s cultural capital was a city that could feel distant from the war. The early panic had eased, and the growing response to morning air raid sirens was not to head downstairs but...

HELSINKI (AP) — Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway’s prime minister said Saturday. Jonas Gahr Støre tweeted that they were killed in the crash on Friday night. The cause was under investigation. “The soldiers...

Syria’s Central Bank decision to expand the list of financing imports in dollar according to the market trading rate is reflected in the real value of the Syrian pound and will lead into the trap of trade-offs between: providing goods at higher prices, in exchange for a new collapse of the...

NEW YORK — Three Russian cosmonauts have arrived at the International Space Station wearing flight suits in yellow and blue colors that match the Ukrainian flag. The men were the first new arrivals on the space station since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine last month. Video of...

Three families and four men left the desert Rukban camp, at the Syria-Jordan border in the eastern countryside of Homs province, the head of the Palmyra and Syrian Badia Tribes Council said Friday  The camp, which is located within the 55 km Area at the border triangle between Jordan,...

  Bashar Assad was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011. In a statement posted on its social media pages, the office says that Assad met with Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice...