PARIS — The office of French President Emmanuel Macron says his three-way call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin was “very frank and also difficult.” French officials said the Russian leader gave no indication during the call Saturday lasting more than...

Russian forces pounding the port city of Mariupol shelled a mosque sheltering more than 80 people, including children, the Ukrainian government said Saturday as fighting also raged on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv. There was no immediate word of casualties from the shelling of the...

Russian troops are pressing their offensive across Ukraine, pounding populated areas with artillery and airstrikes and deploying siege tactics honed in Syria and Chechnya — where opposing cities were reduced to rubble. The bombardment has intensified as units fan out to prepare their assault...

President Joe Biden announced Friday the U.S. will dramatically downgrade its trade status with Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine and also ban imports of Russian seafood, alcohol and diamonds. The broad trade shift, which revokes the “most favored nation” status for Russia, is...

​​Zaman Al-Wasl obtained photos and footage showing a war criminal from the pro-Russia auxiliary forces as a tourist in the UAE city of Dubai.  Saqr Shaheen, 49, a senior leader in the Russia-backed 25th Special Task Force Division, (formerly Tiger Forces), arrived in Dubai last week on...

With Russia's war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria. Syria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from. Russia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast...

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of Indian medical students who sheltered in bunkers while Russia shelled a Ukrainian city have returned home to bouquets and hugs from their parents in emotional scenes at New Delhi’s international airport. Thousands of Indians studying in Ukraine suddenly found...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia widened its military offensive in Ukraine on Friday, striking near airports in the west of the country for the first time as troops kept up pressure on the capital, Kyiv, and the U.S. and its allies prepared to revoke Russia’s favored trading status in a new...

Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday amid international condemnation over an airstrike a day earlier that killed three people at a maternity hospital. Western and Ukrainian officials...

The Syrian regime attributed the rise in prices of the real estate and construction materials to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Al-Watan daily. The rocket-high rise in oil prices led to a rise in shipping costs globally by nearly 30% in addition to insurance costs, accompanied...

The EU's welcome to people fleeing Russia's war in Ukraine raises hope the bloc might be able to overcome deep disagreements over hosting refugees from elsewhere in the world, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said on Thursday. Johansson, the EU's top migration official, spoke as...

ANTALYA, Turkey — Ukraine’s foreign minister says talks between the top diplomats of Moscow and Kyiv produced no breakthrough on ending the war in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he attended the meeting Thursday with Russian Foreign...

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — An airstrike on a hospital in the port of Mariupol killed three people, including a child, the city council said Thursday, and Russian forces intensified their siege of Ukrainian cities, even as the top diplomats from both sides met for the first time since the war...

A house explosion in the Turkish state of Konya left 6 Syrians wounded who were storing and collecting chemicals, according to the Turkish Haberle newspaper. The accident occurred in the basement of a house in Tatlıcak district, Konya state, on Wednesday evening, due to the presence of...

​​The opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria are witnessing an almost complete cut-off of sugar in the markets which pushes people to pile in long queues in front of shops, groceries to obtain a small part of the main commodity. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that sugar was...

IRPIN, Ukraine — Hundreds of Ukrainians living in towns occupied by Russian troops on the outskirts of Kyiv fled Wednesday. Streams of cars -- some fixed with white flags -- filed down the road, joined by lines of yellow buses marked with red crosses. The Interior Ministry said about 700...

UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s “illegal, unprovoked” and “cruel” war against Ukraine is underscoring the many different ways in which peace, security and a stable climate are linked, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday. Kerry told an informal U.N. Security Council meeting on Climate...

When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no imminent danger because time and physics are on safety's side....

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria documented death of 487 Palestinian women in Syria, almost 16% of the total Palestinian female victims who fell during the conflict period extending from March 2011 to March 8, 2022. The London-based monitoring group confirmed that 243 female...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Tuesday said at least 9,774 women are still detained or forcibly disappeared in Syria, while 16,228 women have been killed, and 93 women have died due to torture, noting that the oppression of women in the different groups’ areas of control...