CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea's new military leaders sought to tighten their grip on power Monday after overthrowing President Alpha Conde, ordering the soldiers from his presidential guard to join the junta forces and barring government officials from leaving the country. After putting the...

Israeli forces on Monday launched a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the occupied West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners escaped overnight from a high-security facility in an extremely rare breakout. Officials said they have erected roadblocks and are conducting patrols in the area....

Qatar on Sunday has condemned the Syrian regime's "brutal attack" on southern Daraa city, saying it led to the displacement of dozens of families. A statement issued by the Qatari Foreign Ministry described the attack as "an extension of the series of heinous crimes that the regime has...

 Lawyers of six Syrian refugees arrested in Lebanon said on Sunday that the country's security services have given them a 24-hour ultimatum — either leave Lebanon to a third country or be deported to Syria, the war-ravaged country they fled. Lawyer Mohammed Sablouh said the move is...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The mother of an Islamic State-inspired extremist who stabbed shoppers in a New Zealand supermarket said her son was radicalized by neighbors from Syria and Iraq who helped him recover from an injury. The attacker, Ahamed Samsudeen, was a 32-year-old Tamil Muslim...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has “neutralized” nearly 18,500 people that it calls “terrorists” over the past six years, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. Since the start of this year, that figure was 1,865, spokesperson Maj. Pinar Kara told journalists in Ankara. The ministry uses the term to...

Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at...

Syrian regime forces early Sunday escalated attacks on the Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in southwestern Syria. The Iranian-backed 4th Division militia group targeted the neighborhood with intense attacks after four days, said Eymen Ebu Nokta, spokesman for the Horan Freedoms Community, a...

The US Department of Defence has denied the validity of Iranian media reports about the withdrawal of US troops from its military bases in Syria. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed in a statement to the Russian RIA Novosti: "This is not true. The standards of our mission in Syria remain the...

BELGRADE, Serbia — Austria's leader says any migration wave from Afghanistan should be handled in neighboring countries. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Saturday in Belgrade that a potential wave toward Europe must not take place. He adds that “this is why we are in contact with countries in...

Syria said on Saturday that it welcomed Lebanon's request to import Egyptian gas for energy generation via its territory after Lebanese ministers made the highest level visit to Damascus in years. Lebanon is suffering energy shortages that have forced even essential services including...

A senior Lebanese government delegation arrived in Syria on Saturday for talks expected to focus on the crippling fuel crisis that has paralyzed Lebanon. It marked the highest official visit since Syria’s civil war began more than a decade ago. Lebanon is expecting a shipment of fuel from...

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has raised complex questions over the future of Salafi-jihadi movements, including in Turkey and neighboring Syria where the threat from such groups has been largely contained. Whether the risks heighten down the road will depend largely on how the Taliban...

The historic Khan al-Harir souk in war-torn Syria's erstwhile economic capital of Aleppo has reopened following restoration work, but much of the former workforce that energised it remains exiled. "Reconstruction works are done and this is great, but it's not enough," said Ahmed al-Shib, a...

A delegation from the caretaker Lebanese government is due to visit Syria on Saturday in the highest level visit in years, aiming to pave the way for a United States-backed plan to ease a power crisis in Lebanon. Lebanese government officials have mostly avoided Syria since war began there...

 (AP) — New Zealand authorities were so worried about an Islamic extremist they were following him around-the-clock and were able to shoot and kill him within 60 seconds of him unleashing a frenzied knife attack that wounded six people Friday at an Auckland supermarket. Three of the...

The Lebanese army arrested six Syrian men last week who are now at “imminent risk of deportation” to Syria, where they might face torture and abuse, Amnesty International said on Thursday. At least five of them were former opposition fighters from the southern region of Daraa who may...

The Syrian regime said it shot down Israeli missiles as they approached the capital Damascus on Friday, saying it had countered an “aggression” from its longtime adversary with its own air defenses. State-run news agency SANA said Syria shot down most of the missiles, which were launched...

After the Taliban captured Kabul on Aug. 15, banks were shuttered for more than a week. When the banks reopened, they limited cash withdrawals to 20,000 Afghani ($200) a day. The bank branches were crowded because the city has only a few working ATMs. After the fall of the Ashraf Ghani...

A double dose of a vaccine is most likely to halve the likelihood of long-term COVID-19 effects for adults, according to a study released on Thursday. Research conducted by a team from King’s College London showed that double-jabbed people who contract the virus were 73% less likely to be...