Tens of thousands of people in the opposition-led areas in northwestern Syria went to streets on Tuesday commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Syrian revolution.   Zaman al-Wasl's correspondent said the demonstrators gathered in the main squares in the city of Idlib and the cities of...

Russia has enlisted more than 40,000 Syrian militiamen thus far in Syria, according to reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has been using a dense network of local sources on the ground for years. SOHR said Russian military representatives haven't yet...

(Reuters) - Oil prices tumbled to their lowest in almost three weeks on Tuesday as supply disruption fears eased and surging COVID-19 cases in China spurred demand concerns. Brent futures were down $7.89, or 7.3%, at $99.01 a barrel by 1446 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude...

KYIV, Ukraine — A senior Ukrainian official says about 20,000 people have managed to leave the besieged port city of Mariupol. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a deputy head of office of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the evacuees left Mariupol in private vehicles via a humanitarian...

When Afraa Hashem thinks back about living through the siege of Aleppo, she remembers how inventive everyone was. In late 2016, Syrian government forces had sealed off Aleppo's rebel-held eastern half, with 270,000 people inside, and for months they and Russian warplanes blasted it to...

UDUPI, India (AP) — When Aliya Assadi was 12, she wore a hijab while representing her southern Indian state of Karnataka at a karate competition. She won gold. Five years later she tried to wear one to her junior college, the equivalent of a U.S. high school. She never made it past the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pounded Ukrainian cities early Tuesday in a bombardment that was deepening the humanitarian crisis as the countries kept open a narrow diplomatic channel with more planned talks. Shortly before dawn, large explosions thundered across Kyiv. A series of...

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A wounded pregnant woman who was taken on a stretcher from a maternity hospital that was bombed by Russia last week has died, along with her baby, The Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman, whom the AP has not been able to identify, were seen around the...

DUBAI, March 14 (Reuters) - The United States needs to make a decision to wrap up a deal to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday amid fears that talks in Vienna might collapse. Efforts to clinch a new deal were left in...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine's capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv's suburbs Monday after an airstrike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war dangerously close to NATO's doorstep. A new round...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and China are sending top aides to meet in Rome on Monday amid mounting tensions between the two countries over the Russia-Ukraine war and as a U.S. official reports that Russia in recent days has asked China for military equipment to help press its campaign. In...

Syrian doctor Ossama Jari fled Damascus in 2014 to find peace with his Ukrainian wife in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv. But now war, and Russian bombs, have caught up with him. In an ophthalmology clinic in the northeast Ingulski district of the city, Jari huddled for safety with other...

On International Women’s Day last week, I remembered a quote by the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was known as the Iron Lady: “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” Last Tuesday, millions of women around the globe were celebrated by...

As of Sunday midnight, the Syrian refugee camps in the border town of Arsal in eastern Lebanon, entered a new phase of suffering against the backdrop of the economic crisis that has hit Lebanon for two years.   Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Arsal camps confirmed that the generators...

An American journalist was killed and another journalist was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the capital of Kyiv on Sunday, Ukrainian police said.  Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old filmmaker, was killed when Russian troops opened fire, according to Andriy Nebytov,...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base near Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday. The strike followed Russian threats to target foreign weapon shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters...

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike on a military training base in western Ukraine killed at least nine people and wounded 57, a local official said Sunday. The assault brought the war closer to the border with Poland after a senior Russian diplomat warned that Moscow considered foreign...

(Reuters) - Missile attacks that struck Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil on Sunday were launched from Iran, a U.S. official told Reuters, without giving further details. A dozen ballistic missiles struck Erbil at 1 a.m. on Sunday, targeting the U.S. consulate's new building...

The “Evropeisky” mall in Moscow was once a symbol of a Russia integrated into the global consumer economy, with atriums named after cities like London, Paris and Rome. But now large parts of the seven-story shopping center have gone quiet after Western brands from Apple to Victoria’s Secret...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine dominates world attention. But with less global scrutiny, Putin is also busy advancing Russia’s presence in the Middle East and Africa -- an expansion that military and civilian leaders view as another, if less immediate, threat to security...