The Syrian Prime Ministry announced new plan to expand drilling and exploration for gas and oil, in an indication of its desperation to recover the oil fields controlled by the US-backed Kurdish forces in the northeastern Syria. The director of the Syrian regime's General Petroleum...

MOSCOW (AP) — Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full military mobilization Saturday amid a spike of violence in the war-torn region and fears in the West that Russia might use the strife as a pretext for an invasion. Denis Pushilin, the head of the pro-Russia separatist...

U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, including an assault on the capital, as tensions spiked along the country's militarized line with attacks that the West said could be “false-flag” operations meant to...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian economist Abed Fadhliya said  the government’s decision to exclude anyone who owns a car with an engine capacity of 1500cc and the date of manufacture 2008 or above will have an adverse effect on car prices. in a statement to the pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper, Fadhliya...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Spiking tensions in eastern Ukraine on Friday aggravated Western fears of a Russian invasion and a new war in Europe, with a humanitarian convoy hit by shelling and pro-Russian rebels evacuating civilians from the conflict zone. A car bombing hit the eastern city of Donetsk,...

The Lebanese authorities have seized more than five tons of Captagon bound for Africa, the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces announced Friday. More than 30,000 pills of Captagon have been seized, last week, hidden in boxes containing five hookahs, the General Directorate of...

BERLIN (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Germany said Friday they have formally charged a German woman with membership in a foreign terrorist organization for traveling to Syria with her young son to join the Islamic State group. Prosecutors said Verena M., whose surname wasn't released for...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia announced massive drills of its nuclear forces Friday amid soaring East-West tensions, as the U.S. issued some of its starkest, most detailed warnings yet about how a Russian invasion of Ukraine might unfold. U.S. President Joe Biden sounded unusually dire a day...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Fung Shing Restaurant was bustling this week as customers came for one last taste of the traditional Cantonese dim sum that has made it famous. With COVID-19 restrictions cutting too deeply into its bottom line, the restaurant will shut its doors for good on...

A French woman is accusing Greek authorities of forcing her and other migrants back across the border into Turkey, violating her rights both as a person fleeing persecution and as a European citizen. In court documents seen by The Associated Press, the 32-year-old woman, who has Turkish as...

CAIRO (AP) — A year ago, Libya looked to be on a fragile path toward democracy, after more than a decade of civil war. Now, it appears to be sliding back toward strife and division. After tentative steps towards unity, the country is once again being pulled apart, with two rival prime...

The Jordanian military says a crackdown on drug smugglers along the Syrian border is delivering results. During a media tour along the Syrian border on Thursday, Col. Mustafa al-Hiyari said the military was forced into action in response to increased smuggling activity and violence. In...

The Israeli military on Thursday said it shot down an unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group into Israeli airspace. The incident occurred just a day after Hezbollah's chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said his group has been manufacturing military drones in...

  Faisal Ahmad al-Khalouf, preacher and imam of a mosque in northern Idlib province, died inside the prisons of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham after three years in detention on charges of collaborating with the Syrian regime. Sources from the town of Ma'arshamsha confirmed to Zaman...

Fears of a new war in Europe resurged Thursday as U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia could invade Ukraine within days, and violence spiked in a long-running standoff in eastern Ukraine that some fear could be the spark for wider conflict. World dignitaries raced for solutions but...

Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 105 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. But even as families prepared to bury their dead, it was unclear Thursday how many bodies remained trapped in the mud. Rubens Bomtempo, mayor of the...

A Syrian military helicopter crash-landed in a rugged mountainous area during a training mission in the country’s northwest on Thursday, leaving two of the five crew members dead. State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the helicopter faced technical problems while...

It was night when Zakia Kachar heard the sounds of footsteps approach her tent in a detention camp for foreigners affiliated with Islamic State group extremists. With rocks in their hands, the wives of IS fighters had come for her. She fled with her children to another area of the Roj Camp...

 ​​A Palestinian monitoring group confirmed death of three female detainees under torture in the Sednaya Military Prison northeast of Damascus after being arbitrary held for several years. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said Majdolin al-Nabulsi, a newly-released detainee...

Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles toward Syrian military positions south of Damascus overnight, causing material damage, state media reported Thursday. State TV quoted an unnamed Syrian military official as saying that the missiles were fired from Syria’s Israeli-occupied...