Seven Syrians face deportation from Turkey after posting videos of themselves eating bananas on social media amid wider complaints about the supposed lifestyle of refugees, a Turkish news agency reported Saturday. The seven, plus a Syrian minor, were detained in the western city of Izmir on...

 Syria's air defenses responded Saturday to missiles fired from Israel toward suburbs of the capital Damascus, wounding two soldiers, the Syrian military said. Syria's state news agency SANA quoted a statement by an unnamed military official who said the air defenses shot down several...

ROME (AP) — The leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses on Saturday took part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic, with climate change, COVID-19 economic recovery and the global minimum corporate tax rate on the agenda. Italian Premier Mario Draghi welcomed the...

Syria's Response Coordinators Team warned Friday that thousands of Syrian families are facing harsh winter in opposition-held areas in northern Syria amid poverty and destitution. The local relief group stressed that many displaced families live in tents and unfinished and equipped...

Asmaa al-Natour, an activist who fled her homeland in 2013, has lived in Denmark since 2014, after claiming asylum with her son and husband Omar. Since coming to Denmark, Natour and her family have learnt the language, found employment, paid local taxes and made Danish friends. However,...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers on Friday approved the speedy construction of a $402 million barrier on the European Union member’s border with Belarus, seeking to stop the increasing flow of migrants. Now the plan proposed by the right-wing government only needs the approval from...

BERLIN (AP) — German police said Friday they found an Iraqi man dead inside a small truck near the Polish border in a suspected people-smuggling effort gone wrong. Police found the body after officers spotted about 30 people getting out of the truck near the eastern town of Goerlitz. The...

Saudi Arabia on Friday ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave the country within 48 hours and stopped all imports from Lebanon, a response to comments by a Lebanese minister who described the war in Yemen as Saudi “aggression.” Saudi state media added in its report that the...

ROME (AP) — One of President Joe Biden’s toughest meetings at the G-20 summit may be with the leader of America’s oldest ally: France. Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron will huddle Friday in Rome while Paris is still seething over a secret U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia,...

NABEUL, Tunisia (AP) — A landmark case that helped galvanize Tunisia’s #MeToo movement reached court this week, involving a legislator charged with sexual harassment and public indecency. Feminist activists held a small protest outside the courthouse, shouting chants and waving placards that...

Kilis, located near the Turkish-Syrian border, traces its history of olive production back at least 4,000 years. Olive seeds and other discoveries at the ancient site of Oylum Höyük in the province verified that the Bronze Age settlement was among the east’s most important olive hubs,...

BERLIN (AP) — German security officials are warning far-right groups not to carry out vigilante patrols along the country's eastern border with Poland, amid a rise in the number of migrants crossing the frontier illegally in recent weeks. Extremist groups including the far-right “Third Way”...

 Jordan, Syria and Lebanon on Thursday reached a final deal to provide Lebanon with Jordanian electricity through Syria. The announcement was made following a meeting in Amman for ministers concerned with electricity from Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to discuss developments in the project....

Russia has transferred four warplanes from the Hmeimim Air Base in coastal Latakia province to the airport in the city of Qamishli, in the northeastern Hasakah province, ahead of Turkish military operation against the US-backed Kurdish forces.. Sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that...

ISTANBUL (BLOOMBERG) - Turkey is deporting at least seven Syrians for "provocatively" sharing their images while eating bananas on social media after a Turkish citizen complained that he cannot afford bananas while the refugees can. "You're living more comfortably. I can't eat banana, you...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Truck driver Andriy Melnik never took the coronavirus seriously. With a friend, he bought a fake vaccination certificate so his travel documents would appear in order when he hauled cargo to other parts of Europe. His view changed after the friend caught COVID-19 and...

(Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called on parties in Syria and parties that have influence to create conditions for the political process in the country. China welcomes the holding of the sixth round of the Constitutional Committee on schedule and notes that it did not achieve the...

 The U.N. special envoy for Syria said Wednesday the Syrian government’s refusal to negotiate on revisions to the country’s constitution is a key reason for the failure of talks last week that left the road map to peace in the conflict-torn country in question.. Geir Pedersen expressed...

Three refugees are claiming that the UAE has funded war crimes committed by the terrorist group Daesh during the Syrian conflict, in what has been described as a landmark British court case. According to an exclusive report by the Daily Mail, the trio who are Syrian asylum seekers in...

At a library of the Greek Orthodox patriarchate in Syria's capital Damascus, Rajaa Rajha has been working tirelessly and passionately day after day to restore ancient manuscripts. "I enjoy my work. I feel like these manuscripts have been traveling through time to come to me, waiting for me...