At least one Palestinian was killed and six others were injured in the occupied West Bank on Friday when Israeli soldiers used live bullets and teargas to disperse protesters demonstrating against illegal Jewish settlements there, authorities said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a...

The UN chief said Friday that the world needs to double vaccine production with more equitably distributed doses to quell anger in some countries before a rampant virus turns back on wealthier countries. Speaking virtually at the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, UN Secretary-General...

The return of dozens of Iraqi families suspected of links to the Islamic State group from Syria to Mosul has sparked fears among residents who survived the horrors of IS rule. Around 300 people from some 90 families left the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on Tuesday under Iraqi...

 Syria’s response coordinators team said Friday that Bashar al-Assad’s regime and key ally Russia have launched more than 6 military campaigns in northwestern Syria since Sochi ceasefire reached in 2018 where about half of the population has been displaced, most of whom live in ...

ORANGE FARM, South Africa (AP) — Spry and gray-haired, many dressed in their Sunday best or colorful African prints — and all sporting masks — dozens of South Africans aged 60 and over gathered at a government health clinic outside Johannesburg to get their COVID-19 shots. Some looked at...

MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — Women who make it to the clinic for sex abuse survivors in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray usually struggle to describe their injuries. But when they can’t take a seat and quietly touch their bottoms, the nurses know it’s an unspeakable kind of suffering. So...

CHIBAISH, Iraq (AP) — “Don’t move a muscle.” His command cut across the reeds rustling in the wind. On a moonlit embankment several kilometers from shore in Iraq’s celebrated southern marshes, everyone stood still. Omar al-Sheikhly shined a flashlight across a muddy patch. “Nothing,” he...

NEW YORK (AP) — Toward the end of HBO Max's “Friends” reunion special, host James Corden asks the six actors to imagine what their characters' lives would be like today. Chandler and Monica would be married. So would Ross and Rachel. With kids, of course. Same with Phoebe. The only mystery...

A burial mound in northern Syria has been identified by researchers as perhaps the world’s oldest known war memorial. The site, known as the White Monument, in the town of Tal Banat had previously been thought to be an ancient mass grave of enemy fighters. However, a report published in the...

The Syrian artist Mohamed al-Dani designed a mosaic model of Al-Aqsa Mosque, conveying the smallest details in the dome, and the decorations and columns contained in the historical Islamic landmark, all the way to the golden dome. The mosaics that adorn the Dome of the Rock, dating back...

  The Biden administration won’t renew a Trump-era waiver that allowed a politically connected U.S. oil company to operate in northeast Syria. That word comes from a U.S. official familiar with the decision who's not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. Treasury Department...

Desperate Syrians in eastern Ghouta had to come up with creative ways to meet basic needs and avoid starvation when regime forces in 2013 imposed a crippling siege on them. Omar Mubarak, an English teacher in the region's Hawsh al-Dawahira village, built a biogas project that helped provide...

 The U.N. rights chief said Thursday that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes in the 11-day war with the militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip. Michelle Bachelet also called on Israel to allow an independent probe of military actions in the latest spasm of deadly violence....

BEIRUT (AP) — For hours, French investigators on Thursday questioned fugitive former auto magnate Carlos Ghosn in the Lebanese capital as a witness in a probe over Renault’s pollutant emissions, according to two Lebanese officials. A prosecution official and a judge said the French...

ROME (AP) — The last two World Cup winners, the defending European champion, and a World Cup finalist. Not to mention a Champions League winner and a Premier League champion. There is no shortage of accomplished coaches at the European Championship. A brief look at six of the top...

 The United Nations launched an emergency appeal Thursday for $95 million for Gaza for the next three months to meet immediate humanitarian needs and repairs to key facilities. That includes hospitals, schools, water and sewage facilities and other infrastructure destroyed or damaged during...

A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Thursday acknowledged having equipment on an island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait where a mysterious air base is now under construction. However, the coalition's statement on the state-run Saudi Press Agency did not name who was building the facility...

 (AP) — Israel's top diplomat to the United Arab Emirates attended a ceremony in Dubai on the grounds of the Arabian Peninsula's first permanent exhibition to commemorate the Holocaust. Hours earlier, he'd attended an event establishing a joint venture between an Israeli and Emirati...

(AP) — The European Union on Thursday called on Iran to review a case of a prominent female human rights activist who was sentenced to 30 months in prison and 80 lashes on charges of protesting against the killing of protesters during the country's 2019 unrest. A spokesperson for the bloc...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Two vaccines made by China’s Sinopharm appear safe and effective against COVID-19, according to a study published in a medical journal. Scientists had been waiting for more details about the two vaccines, even though they already are being used in many...