Syria regime shelling has killed eight children and a woman in the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib in just two days, a war monitor said Friday. Artillery fire early Friday morning on the village of Kansafra in the northwestern stronghold killed four children from the same family,...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to hold talks in Moscow on Friday amid the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan and as Russia's treatment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and Ukraine remain a source of ongoing tension between the two...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top diplomat assured his Libyan counterpart Thursday that Moscow supports the withdrawal of all foreign fighters from the North African country and is prepared to help work out the details with other countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the...

Loud explosions shook the Syrian capital late on Thursday as state media reported Israeli airstrikes around Damascus. The state-news agency SANA said Syrian air defenses confronted the Israeli planes, while the pro-Syrian government Cham FM Radio reported airstrikes in the Damascus...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan protesters defied the Taliban for a second day Thursday, waving their national flag in scattered demonstrations, and the fighters again responded violently as they faced down growing challenges to their rule. A U.N. official warned of dire food shortages...

The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said Thursday that an Iranian fuel tanker will sail toward Lebanon “within hours,” warning Israel and the United States not to intercept it. The delivery organized by Lebanon-based Hezbollah, would be an apparent violation of U.S....

Mothers in Jarablus, a Syrian town cleared of Daesh with the aid of Turkey, have found help from the neighboring country on how best to care for newborns. At the hospital's maternity clinic, built with the assistance of Turkey, around 700 women were educated on the importance of breast milk and...

Turkey-backed Syrian forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters shelled one another’s positions in northern Syria on Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead and more than a dozen wounded, the Kurdish side and a war monitor reported. The violence is the latest in northern Syria, which has...

  At least three civilians were killed Wednesday in a missile attack by Kurdish YPG militia on northern Afrin city, according to local reports.   It was indicated that a petrol station was targeted, causing a large fire and a plume of smoke.   Later in the day, Turkey's...

China says it is waiting for the establishment of an “open, inclusive, and widely representative” government in Afghanistan before it decides on the issue of recognition. “If we are going to recognize a government, we will have to wait till the government is formed,” Foreign Ministry...

TATVAN, Turkey (AP) — Fearing a new refugee crisis, Turkey is sending soldiers to reinforce its border with Iran in order to stop a potential influx of Afghans fleeing the Taliban insurgency. Irregular arrivals are already up as Afghans who fled weeks and months ago show up at Turkey's...

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who is also commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces, appointed Shahram Irani as navy commander on Tuesday. Irani, 54, is the first Sunni high-ranking military commander in the armed forces and hails from Sanandaj, northwestern Kurdistan province,...

Syrian state media reported that Israel carried out a missile attack on southern Syria late on Tuesday, targeting an unspecified military position. There was no immediate comment from Israel. The state TV report did not specify if there were any casualties. It said two missiles were fired...

A fire broke out Tuesday at one of the main power stations in Lebanon’s capital following a loud explosion, according to eyewitnesses and an Anadolu Agency correspondent. Firefighting teams rushed to the location and proceeded to put out the fire at the station in the Qasqas area of Beirut....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped the main airport as desperate crowds tried to flee their rule....

By Firas Kontar Thanaa al Hussein, une Palestinienne rescapée des camps de la mort du régime syrien. Elle a témoigné du viol et de la torture qu’elle a subis durant six mois et, si elle prend la parole à visage découvert, c’est pour tous les autres détenus des prisons d’Assad. Son courage...

By Firas Kontar Thanaa al Hussein, a Palestinian survivor of the Syrian regime's death camps. She has testified to the rape and torture she endured for six months, and if she speaks openly, it is for all the other inmates in Assad's prisons. His exceptional courage deserves our...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Striking a defiant tone, President Joe Biden said Monday that he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and that the Afghan government's collapse was quicker than anticipated. Biden said he was faced with a choice between sticking to...

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in this quake-ravaged coastal town, where 15 bodies had already been extracted. Jean Moise Fortunè, whose brother, the hotel owner, was killed in the quake, believed there were more people...

President Michel Aoun said he hoped a new Lebanese government would be formed within the next couple days, as efforts to agree one were spurred on by a fuel crisis that has brought much of the country to a standstill and sparked warnings of anarchy. The steadily worsening fuel crisis has...