BERLIN (AP) — More than 20 people have died and dozens of people are missing in Germany and neighboring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse. Storms across parts of western Europe in recent...

At least nine civilians were killed, including three children, when Syrian regime rockets hit two villages in the last rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria, rescue workers and a war monitor said Thursday. The Syrian Civil Defense team that operates in opposition areas, known as White...

Twenty-six more bodies were discovered in rebel-held city of Afrin in northern Syria, a local Turkish official confirmed on Thursday. "We announced the numbers yesterday, it was 35, but as of the morning, the toll increased to 61 and the excavation work still continues,"Rahmi Dogan, governor...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday that it is prepared to begin evacuation flights for Afghan interpreters and translators who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war. The Operation Allies Refuge flights out of Afghanistan during the last week of July...

COVID-19 deaths and cases are on the rise again globally in a dispiriting setback that is triggering another round of restrictions and dampening hopes for an almost normal summer of fun. The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that deaths climbed last week after nine straight weeks...

 , When Ibrahim Al Hussein fled Syria in 2012 after being wounded by an explosion during his country's civil war, his life was turned upside down. Nearly a decade later, Al Hussein is preparing for his second Paralympic Games in Tokyo and credits swimming with helping him to...

Nine Chinese workers were among 13 people killed on Wednesday when a blast on a bus sent it careering down a ravine in northwestern Pakistan, government and police officials said. While Pakistani officials said the nature of the blast was under investigation, the Chinese embassy in Islamabad...

A Moroccan parliamentary report revealed on Tuesday that 1,659 Moroccans have joined various terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. The report prepared by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Moroccan Parliament seeks to determine the conditions of Moroccans stranded in Syria and Iraq....

The UN Human Rights Council has called for those behind “massive scale” enforced disappearances in Syria during the past 10 years of conflict to be held accountable. The resolution, presented on Tuesday by several European countries, the United States, Turkey and Qatar, decried that...

  A fresh rocket fire targeted the largest U.S. base in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Tuesday, the second attack to hit the facility within 24 hours, according to the state news agency SANA. Smoke was seen rising from the base located in the al-Omar oil field in the...

Captains  of  Zaatari  by Egyptian director Ali El-Arabi will be shown next October at the International Asian Film Festival in Los Angeles. Mahmoud and Fawzi have been living in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Though they both have no sense of what the future...

Sakina, who is 11, maybe 12, walked with her family for 10 days after the Taliban seized her village in northern Afghanistan and burned down the local school. They are now among around 50 families living in a makeshift camp on a rocky patch of land on the edge of the northern city of...

The death toll from a fire that swept through a hospital coronavirus ward climbed to 92 on Tuesday, Iraq's state news agency reported, as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country's second such disaster in less than three months....

Agaunt old man extends his arms in excitement as a young woman runs toward him just outside an airport terminal. This is a common scene in such places where people meet their loved ones, even after brief flights. But the story of Ammar Haidar and his daughter Marwa was different. This was their...

Syria’s opposition National Coalition on Monday elected Salem al-Muslat as its new president following a two-day meeting in Istanbul.   Al-Muslat, a prominent tribal figure, will replace Naser al-Hariri.    Al-Muslat heads the Syrian Tribal Council in northeastern Syria. He is...

Another child was killed in an attack by the Syrian regime forces in northwestern Idlib province on Monday, while two were injured as the regime continues its violations of a ceasefire struck last year. Regime forces stationed in the Jurin area of northwestern Hama violated the...

LONDON (AP) — British police opened investigations Monday into the racist abuse of three Black players who failed to score penalties in England's shootout loss to Italy in the European Championship final. The Metropolitan Police condemned the “unacceptable” abuse of Marcus Rashford, Jadon...

Top officials at the World Health Organization say there's not enough evidence to show that third doses of coronavirus vaccines are needed and appealed Monday for the scarce shots to be shared with poor countries who have yet to immunize their people instead of being used by rich countries as...

A shadow government is breaking taboos in Buddhist-majority Myanmar by welcoming Rohingya into its anti-junta coalition, but many in the long-persecuted Muslim minority are wary after living through decades of discrimination and deadly violence. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the...

In his white gloves, dark suit and tie, taxi driver Yuki Kawaguchi is ready to ferry passengers around Tokyo in style. But while taking a cab in the Japanese capital is a luxurious experience, drivers face the constant threat of coronavirus infection, and recently suffered another blow to...