Even if a Russian invasion of Ukraine doesn't happen in the next few days, the crisis is reaching a critical inflection point with European stability and the future of East-West relations hanging in the balance. A convergence of events over the coming week could determine whether the...

The Islamic State has killed 5,043 individuals, including 32 due to torture, since the radical group’s establishment, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday, noting that despite the passage of almost two years since the defeat of ISIS, the fate of 8,684 forcibly disappeared by ISIS...

Kidnappers in southern Syria have released a boy they had held for over three months after his family paid ransom, state media reported Sunday. The case of eight-year-old Fawaz Quteifan shocked Syrians for weeks after his kidnappers released a video showing him screaming while being whipped...

Marte Olsbu Roeiseland earned her third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, and fourth medal overall, by winning the women’s biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit race Sunday. The Norwegian started the race with a lead because of her win in the sprint race and hit 19 of her 20 targets. Despite...

From his small music shop on Beirut’s Hamra Street, Michel Eid witnessed the rise and fall of Lebanon through the changing fortunes of this famed boulevard for more than 60 years. Hamra Street represented everything that was glamorous about Beirut in the 1960s and 1970s, with Lebanon’s top...

  Infighting between Turkish-allied factions in the northern Syrian city of Afrin has left one fighter killed and another wounded, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday.   The clash took place between Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Hamza Division in Korkan village near Afrin...

Amman- A number of smugglers were killed and others injured as they attempted to infiltrate and smuggle drugs and firearms into the Kingdom from the Syrian territory on Friday, a source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said on Saturday. Two of the bodies of the smugglers who were...

President Joe Biden on Saturday again called on President Vladimir Putin to pull back more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s borders and warned that the U.S. and its allies would “respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if Russia invades, according to the White...

Six people from the same family including two children were killed in a Syrian military artillery strike on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria on Saturday, opposition activists said. Residents said the family was outside their house enjoying sunny weather and drinking tea when the shell...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden are to hold a high-stakes telephone call on Saturday as tensions over a possibility imminent invasion of Ukraine escalated sharply and the U.S. announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital. Before talking to...

Hundreds took to the streets of a southern Syrian city on Friday to demand better living conditions and democracy in a rare protest inside regime-held areas, a war monitor said. More than 300 protesters, gathering for a fifth consecutive day in Sweida after authorities cut off 600,000...

Daesh is a growing threat to northeast Syria, and the group will again flourish unless immediate action is taken, the Kurdish-led region’s security chief said in the wake of last month’s deadly prison attack. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, said...

The government of Sweden sought Friday to discredit claims that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children, saying the allegations “are wrong" and are "seriously misleading and aim to create tensions and spread mistrust.” In a Twitter thread devoted to what it termed “a...

The chill of a Cold War hung over Eastern Europe again Friday, with Russian military maneuvers and drills close to Ukraine and the U.S. escalating its dire warnings about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying it could take place within days. Diplomats and government leaders,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an order Friday to free $7 billion in Afghan assets now frozen in the U.S., splitting the money between humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Afghanistan and a fund for Sept. 11 victims still seeking relief for the terror attacks that killed thousands...

Thousands of cars and motorbikes paraded in celebration of the 43rd anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution on Friday, although fewer pedestrians were out for a second straight year due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. In the capital Tehran, processions started out from...

Amira Osman, a Sudanese women's rights activist, was getting ready for bed a few minutes before midnight when about 30 policemen forced their way into her home in Khartoum last month. The men, many in plainclothes and armed with Kalashnikov rifles, pistols and batons, banged on her bathroom...

U.S. military officials said Thursday there could have been more civilian casualties than initially thought in the raid that killed the top Islamic State leader in Syria last week, but they believe any such deaths were caused by the militant's suicide bomb and were not at the hands of American...

Roza Barakat's tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive. She was 11 years old when she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State group, along with thousands of other Yazidi women and girls taken when the militants overran northern Iraq in their...

A Syrian refugee girl saw the light for the first time since her birth 6 years ago, with the efforts of a Kuwaiti medical team as part of a program to help Syrian refugee families in Jordan, a Kuwaiti daily reported Thursday. The Al-Wasat newspaper quoted the Kuwaiti Red Crescent as saying...