Saudi Arabia announced the graduation of the first batch of female soldiers from the Saudi armed forces. The Saudi Defense Ministry posted a video of the graduation ceremony of the female soldiers after they completed a 14-week military training that started on May 30. According to the...

Among the athletes at the Tokyo Paralympics are six members of the refugee team. One of them is Syrian kayaker Anas Al Khalifa. DW's Ben Bathke heard his extraordinary and moving story in Germany before he flew to Japan. On a warm and sunny August day, Anas Al Khalifa is training with his...

BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel will leave office as one of modern Germany's longest-serving leaders and a global diplomatic heavyweight, with a legacy defined by her management of a succession of crises that shook a fragile Europe rather than any grand visions for her own country. In 16 years...

A Russian-negotiated cease-fire took effect Wednesday in a volatile southern city, according to the Syrian opposition and state media. Violence in the area in recent weeks between regime forces and opposition fighters had threatened to undo years of relative calm along the borders with...

Even as the US completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan on Monday ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline, the double suicide bombing at Kabul airport and US drone strikes against ISIS-K hideouts have amply highlighted that the dawn of peace in the war-torn country is still far away....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was Nov. 13 , 2001. The sun had just begun to rise over the Hindu Kush Mountains when the Taliban disappeared from Kabul, the battered capital of Afghanistan. The bodies of foreign Arabs who had stayed behind were mutilated and bloodied. They had been found and...

After the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan, Arab countries are wondering whether Syria – which has hundreds of American soldiers – will be the next country to witness a U.S. withdrawal. This was already stated in an analytical article in Foreign Policy magazine. The piece says that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of Afghanistan Monday, they left behind up to 200 Americans and thousands of desperate Afghans who couldn't get out and now must rely on the Taliban to allow their departure. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...

A Taliban guard at the Kabul airport says the last U.S. planes have flown out after 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Hemad Sherzad tells The Associated Press the last five planes departed early Tuesday, just after midnight. Celebratory gunfire erupted across the city. U.S. officials have...

Five people on Monday were killed in an explosion at a factory in Burj al-Barajneh in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's Beirut, the National News Agency reported. The cause of the explosion is still unknown. The Lebanese army arrived at the site of the explosion for investigations and...

The Pentagon says it remains prepared to airlift more Americans from the Kabul airport, even as the evacuation winds down. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Monday “there is still time” for remaining Americans to get out. He would not be more specific about the state of the...

 Qatar played an outsized role in U.S. efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan. Now the tiny Gulf Arab state is being asked to help shape what is next for Afghanistan because of its ties with both Washington and the Taliban, who are in charge in Kabul....

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) issues its tenth annual report on Enforced Disappearance in Syria on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances August 30, in which SNHR emphasizes that the disappeared persons in Syria and their families...

Syrian regime forces shelled rebel-held parts of a volatile southern Daraa city Monday killing at least one person, while insurgents killed four soldiers after Russia-brokered talks to end the presence of opposition fighters in the area collapsed. Syria’s state media reported that...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on Kabul airport on Monday, the group's Nasher News said on its Telegram channel. "By the grace of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted Kabul International Airport with six Katyusha rockets," it said. U.S....

Syria’s military bombarded the last rebel enclave in the southern city of Daraa on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of the deadliest attacks in its siege of the birthplace of the country’s uprising, residents said. The army declined to comment on the reports but said in a statement it...

At least 30 soldiers were killed and 60 wounded in Houthi strikes on Yemen’s largest airbase in Lahj, about 60km north of Aden, southern forces spokesman Mohamed al-Naqeeb said on Sunday. Military personnel in Al-Anad airbase were conducting a training exercise when the attack took place, an...

The security authorities of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria granted Asharq Al-Awsat a permission to interview three former ISIS members, at the anti-terror headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Hasakah. The three were young men when they decided to...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban forces sealed off Kabul's airport Saturday to most Afghans hoping for evacuation and most NATO nations flew out their troops after two decades in Afghanistan, winding down a frantic airlift that Western leaders acknowledged was still leaving many of their...

MADRID (AP) — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the...