More than 200 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in northeast Syria's densely-populated Al-Hol camp for the displaced and families of defeated jihadists, a government official said Thursday. The vaccination drive, using AstraZeneca jabs under the Covax programme for low-income...

  Four pro-regime militants were killed and six wounded in a landline explosion in the central province of Hama, state-run news agency reported Thursday.   The landmine went off while a military bus was passing near the village of Rasm Ghazali in the eastern countryside of...

Another mass grave has been found in the yard of a boarding school in Canada, an indigenous group said Wednesday. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) said in a statement that hundreds of unmarked graves of children were found at the site of the former Marieval Indian...

Netherlands’ Mustafa Akraa, who fled the Syrian war in 2016, is today in the final of the European Under-22 Championships in Roseto, Italy where he fights against the Italian Francesco Lozia. Mustafa has just completed a media weigh in and stare down and is preparing for an exciting...

An attack by the Syrian regime and allied Iran-backed foreign terrorist groups killed at least three civilians, including a child, and wounded eight others in the opposition-held Idlib de-escalation zone in northern Syria. The regime forces fired shells at six villages in southern...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Thursday announced the death of Nizar Banat, an activist and harsh critic of the PA, after his arrest by Palestinian security forces from his home in Hebron, southern West Bank. In a statement, Hebron's Governor Jibreen al-Bakri said Banat was held on an...

 Russia previewed a showdown with the United Nations, United States and Western nations Wednesday over the delivery of humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, rejecting their warnings that closing the only border crossing will leave more than 1 million people without...

What should I know about the delta variant? It’s a version of the coronavirus that has been found in more than 80 countries since it was first detected in India. It got its name from the World Health Organization, which names notable variants after letters of the Greek alphabet. Viruses...

MADRID (AP) — John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said....

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo scored two penalties to tie the overall men’s scoring record with 109 goals and Portugal advanced to the round of 16 at the European Championship after a 2-2 draw with France on Wednesday. Ronaldo's tournament-leading fourth and fifth goals...

Scores of Israeli settlers on Wednesday forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian agency. The Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem said in a statement that 74 settlers broke into the compound under the...

About 5,000 civilians in the north-west of Syria have once again been forced to flee their homes after a new wave of government shelling targeting the contested area, a local aid agency said. At least 31 people have died since the beginning of June as Bashar al-Assad’s forces have hit...

Oman will begin issuing long-term residency to foreign investors, the government said Wednesday as authorities attempt to shore up the Gulf nation's flagging economy. Depressed demand for oil and the coronavirus pandemic have hit the sultanate's finances hard, pushing leaders to seek...

The owners of private generators that provide a vital backup to Lebanon's decrepit power grid warned Wednesday of their own cuts due to lack of fuel as the country's economic crisis deepens. The national network run by Electricité du Liban is prone to blackouts and in some areas only manages...

Syrian regime forces continued their attacks on rebel-held northwestern Syria on Wednesday, reportedly injuring three Turkish soldiers at an observation post in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of Idlib province and killing a woman and injuring her child near the city of Atareb in western Aleppo...

Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow disagrees that there is no alternative to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest except from Turkey as the U.N. and many Western nations maintain, insisting deliveries are possible across conflict lines within the country. He...

Twenty-five years ago, at about 9:30 pm in the evening of June 25, 1996, a huge explosion rocked the barracks for the United States Air Force 4404 Provisional Wing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The blast from a truck bomb was so massive it was felt in Bahrain 20 miles away. Nineteen American airmen...

Four Saudi operatives who were part of a hit team that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training from a private US company approved by the State Department, according to a report Tuesday.  Citing documents and people familiar with the arrangement, the...

Websites of Iran's state-owned international broadcasters Press TV and Al-Alam have been "seized," with speculation that it's done by the US government. Visitors to the two websites, as well as Houthi-run Al Masirah, were on Tuesday greeted by a blue and red screen with a message that...

Netherlands’ Mustafa Akraa, who fled the Syrian war in 2016, is a newcomer in their national team but he exceeded all of the previous expectations with his performance in Roseto degli Abruzzi on Tuesday.  The Dutch lightweight (60kg) boxer used in-fighting style against Armenia’s...