MEXICO CITY (AP) — An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed and sent the train plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. Rescuers found four bodies inside a rail car that was dangling from the...

DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai is recalling more than 390,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada for two problems that can cause engine fires. In one recall, owners are being told to park their vehicles outdoors until repairs are made. The largest recall covers more than 203,000 Santa Fe Sport SUVs...

Qatar Charity (QC) has started implementing qualitative water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects to benefit 500,000 people in northwestern Syria, as part of its efforts to alleviate their daily suffering. These projects include maintaining 8 non-functional water plants, in...

Recent weeks have seen a crescendo of rumors claiming that local, regional, and international support is growing to establish a Syrian Transitional Military Council (TMC). It would allegedly be led by defected Brigadier General Manaf Tlass, whose mandate would be to midwife the war-ravaged...

The low water level of the Euphrates River has triggered the farmers' concerns in northeastern Raqqa and Deir Ezzor provinces over the fate of summer crops and the water crisis in all.   Abdul Hadi al-Jaziri, a 45-year-old farmer, told Zaman al-Wasl that farmers' main trouble is...

Jordan reopened Monday two border posts closed nine months ago due to the coronavirus pandemic -- one with Saudi Arabia, the other with Syria -- the interior ministry said. But there are strict limits on the numbers allowed in each day and travellers are required to be in possession of...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has issued its annual report the most notable violations against media workers in Syria for World Press Freedom Day, noting that 709 journalists and media workers have been killed since March 2011, including 52 due to torture.   The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday formally raised the nation's cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ceiling set by former President Donald Trump. Refugee resettlement agencies have...

The Syrian activist Tamer Al-Turkmani has recorded 183 massacres committed by the Syrian regime and key allies in April of every year since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011.   The death toll topped  2,661, including 582 children and 358 women.   The massacres...

(AP) — Saudi Aramco said Tuesday its profits soared by 30% in the first-quarter of the year, compared to last year, riding on the back of higher crude oil prices. The results come as some of the world's biggest economies are clawing their way out of recession and easing restrictions amid...

NAQOURA, Lebanon (AP) — After a nearly six-month pause, Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday resumed indirect talks with U.S. mediation over their disputed maritime border. The resumption comes after a new U.S. administration took over. Lebanon has sunk deeper into it economic and financial...

  Students of medical colleges and institutes at the opposition's Free Aleppo University launched a campaign on social media to urge hospitals in the northern Aleppo province to allow them to get internships.    Mohamed Yassin, head of the Free Syrian Students Union,...

A blast at a jihadist-run arms depot in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region killed two fighters and a civilian Monday, a war monitor said. The explosion blew the warehouse to smithereens and set fire to a nearby field, an AFP correspondent who reached the scene near the town of Fuaa...

The Dutch police said Saturday that a former fighter in the Syrian forces, who obtained asylum in Netherlands, has disappeared over fears of being prosecuted, a Dutch daily said Saturday.   The Algemeen Dagblad said a Syrian refugee suspected of committing war crimes had suddenly...

A Syrian refugee woman threw her two children over her first-floor  house balcony in the German Bavaria state, the Bild newspaper reported.   The 8-year-old boy and the 20-month-old toddler have survived a tragic death but they suffer intense bruises and fractures.  ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — It’s a men's-only club in the tangle of auto repair shops on the traffic-clogged streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Among them, workers toil in dim garages, welding and wrenching, fabricating and painting. That’s until Maryam Roohani, 34, pops up from under a car’s...

Residents of the al Hol camp are suffering from a lack of services amid an outbreak of coronavirus among displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees inside the camp. There have been 19 identified and isolated COVID cases, with two deaths, according to Jaber Mustafa, head of the relations...

 Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country, state media reported Monday. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by President Bashar Assad, who was chosen along...

Two Syrian regime forces were killed in separate attacks by rebel groups in northern Idlib province.   Al-Fateh al-Mubeen's operation room said its fighters had killed an army officer and one soldier in separate attacks in Kafranbel town and near the M4 highway.   In its turn, the...