GDANSK, Poland (AP) — Villarreal goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli decided a marathon shootout by converting his own spot kick and then saving one from counterpart David de Gea as the Spanish team beat Manchester United 11-10 on penalties Wednesday to win the Europa League final. After a 1-1...

May is usually a month of plenty in Raqqa, as the Euphrates river feeds crops and brings relief from the rising summer heat. But this year, the 2,800-kilometre-long river that originates in Turkey and crosses through Syria and Iraq to finish its course in the Arabian Gulf, has depleted to...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to repatriate more than 160 Nordic nationals, most of whom are children, from northeast Syria. As many as 30 Danes, 22 Finns, 37 Norwegians, and 65 to 75 Swedes are being detained in camps and makeshift prisons in the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese laboratory. After months of minimizing that possibility as...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard serving Silicon Valley, killing eight people. The gunman was also dead, authorities said. The suspect was an employee of the Valley Transportation Authority, which provides bus, light rail and other transit...

With presidential elections approaching on May 26, 2021 state media have broadcast demonstrations supporting the re-election of Bashar al Assad. While we believe that there is a class of citizens who benefit politically, economically and religiously from the continuation of the current...

MARDIN, Turkey (AP) — In the medieval Turkish city of Mardin, Medine Ereli calls out to a team of medical workers walking along the town’s cobblestoned main street. Her 59-year old husband refuses to get vaccinated, she tells the doctor and nurse, before leading them to Enver Ereli, who’s on...

Syrians in government-held areas of the war-torn country headed to polling stations early Wednesday to vote in a presidential election guaranteed to give President Bashar Assad a fourth seven-year term. The vote is the second presidential election since the country's conflict began 10 years...

Two Iraqis were killed and 28 others were injured in clashes Tuesday as thousands protested in Baghdad to demand justice over a wave of deadly attacks on pro-democracy activists and journalists. Medics and police said demonstrators were injured when police fired tear gas to disperse them,...

Polling stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election where few doubt that Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term, in a war-battered country mired in economic crisis. The controversial vote is the second election since the start of a decade-long...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability to a fraught relationship that's only worsened in the first months of the Democratic administration....

At least 10O COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections to 22,828,  Early Warning Network said Tuesday.   Infections have risen in northwestern Syria, portending a new surge. Over 22,800 infections and...

The Russian military said Tuesday it has deployed three nuclear-capable long-range bombers to its base in Syria, a move that could strengthen Moscow's military foothold in the Mediterranean. Russia's Defense Ministry said that three Tu-22M3 bombers have arrived at the Hemeimeem air...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Nine years ago, the Syrian regime forces and allied militias slaughtered 107 civilians, including 49 children and 32 women in central Homs province.     After the Asr Prayer on Friday 25 May 2012, residents heard that the regime was going to storm the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie criticized a judge deciding on custody arrangements for her and Brad Pitt's children during their divorce, saying in a court filing that the judge refused to allow their kids to testify. Jolie, who has sought to disqualify Judge John Ouderkirk from the...

 Nearly a dozen buses carrying 100 Iraqi families who lived in a sprawling Syrian camp for supporters and families of Islamic State militants returned to Iraq on Tuesday, where public opinion is divided about their return. The families include women, children and men, according to...

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to “rally international support” to aid Gaza during a visit to Israel at the start of a regional tour to shore up last week’s cease-fire. He said Tuesday the U.S. would work to address the “grave humanitarian situation” in the...

MOSCOW (AP) — European airlines began skirting Belarus on Tuesday at the urging of the European Union, which also imposed new sanctions to punish the ex-Soviet nation's forced diversion of a passenger jet to arrest an opposition journalist. In unusually swift action at a summit in...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government Tuesday was quick to deny a U.S. warning for Americans to avoid traveling to Japan would have an impact on Olympians wanting to compete in the postponed Tokyo Games. U.S. officials cited a surge in coronavirus cases in Japan caused by virus variants that...

(AP) — A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo. While no country has claimed the Mayun Island air base in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, shipping traffic...