The Turkish Religious Endowment has collected enough donations to build hundreds of units designated to house the displaced in northern Syria, Turkish media said Tuesday.   The charity had received donations from the French city of Strasbourg collected by the branch of the Turkish...

The Palestinian refugees of Daraa camp and Daraa Al-Balad are facing difficult conditions due a siege a imposed by Syrian regime forces on southern Daraa city last week amid high prices and the loss of food and medicine, a Palestinian monitoring said Wednesday.   The Action Group for...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — About a dozen deaths in Washington and Oregon may be tied to an intense heat wave that brought scorching temperatures to the Northwest and caused one power utility to impose rolling blackouts amid heavy demand. The dangerous weather that gave Seattle and Portland...

ZVIMBA, Zimbabwe (AP) — For Pelagia Bvukura, who lives in a rural part of north-central Zimbabwe, COVID-19 had always been a “city disease,” affecting those in the capital, Harare, or other, distant big towns. “There was no virus for us. We only used to hear it was in Harare or other towns...

In a camp in northwest Syria, Mohamad al-Abdullah relies on UN aid to treat a spinal injury that could have paralysed him had it not been for cross-border aid. But that life-saving assistance is now threatened by a Russian veto. With Moscow threatening to shut the region's last crossing...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s asylum agency said Tuesday that the number of people seeking international protection in Europe hit its lowest level last year since 2013, but that the drop was due mostly to coronavirus travel restrictions. The European Asylum Support Office, or...

Qatar Charity has coordinated with the Syria Vaccine Team SIG to provide the vaccine to Syrian displaced in northern Syria through two primary health care centers operated by Qatar Charity to conduct the Corona vaccine in northern Syria. The first Center is the Al-Ra’i Center in the...

  The Syrian researcher Ahmed Khatib has achieved a new superiority in Neutrosophic science, adding a new qualitative addition to the achievements of Syrians in the Diaspora.   Khatib, 36, has published nearly 15 articles in prestigious scientific journals, and his latest...

Overlooking war-battered Gaza from the tenth floor of a tower block, Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani has a new bundle of files -- on victims of last month's war with Israel. For years, he has been building cases in the Israeli-blockaded enclave to be submitted to the...

A Palestinian rights monitor said that more than 200 children live in difficult conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, stressing that the scenes of destruction and the rubble of houses have become a nightmare engraved in their minds, which has created psychological problems...

Israel's foreign minister landed in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday in the first official visit by an Israeli minister to the Gulf state since the two countries established diplomatic relations last year. During the two-day visit, Yair Lapid is set to inaugurate Israel's embassy in Abu...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — France is out of the European Championship, and it was Kylian Mbappe that missed the penalty kick in the shootout. Switzerland eliminated the World Cup champions 5-4 in the shootout after a 3-3 draw on Monday in the round of 16. Switzerland goalkeeper...

The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army launched an arrest campaign targeting wanted people in Jarablus city in the northern province of Aleppo, local reporter said Sunday.   The National Army has imposed a complete curfew in the city of Jarablus, seeking to hunt drug dealers,...

A prominent Hezbollah-affiliated official was assassinated in southern Syria on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Aref Al-Jahmani, a commander linked to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon, was reportedly assassinated in the town of Saida, located in Deraa...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Cheery fans, dreary skies. Wimbledon is back after a one-year hiatus and the gray, overcast weather felt right at home at an event notorious for its rain delays. “Perfect spectator weather,” said Hannah Scott, a 26-year-old mask-wearing graduate student...

- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that 10,000 Islamic State fighters continue to be held in detention in camps run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that this situation was "untenable". Speaking at the opening of a meeting in Rome to renew...

US air strikes against Iran-backed armed groups on the Syrian-Iraqi border killed at least seven fighters overnight into Monday, sparking immediate calls for revenge and fears of a new escalation between Washington and Tehran. The second such raid on pro-Iran targets since US President Joe...

Dr. Rania Awaad was attending a virtual religion program this Ramadan when discussion turned to an unexpected question: Is it religiously acceptable to say a prayer for someone who died by suicide? Suicide is a complex and delicate topic that Awaad, as director of the Muslim Mental...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Tomas Holes and Patrik Schick scored second-half goals Sunday to give the Czech Republic a 2-0 victory over 10-man Netherlands and a place in the European Championship quarterfinals. Netherlands central defender Matthijs de Ligt was sent off for a handball in...

PARIS (AP) — Polling agency estimations indicate that mainstream candidates have delivered a stinging setback to France’s far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time. The Ifop polling agency estimated that the far...