The documentary “Children of the Enemy,” which captures the journey of a Swedish-Chilean man to a Syrian prison camp to rescue his grandchildren, had its world premiere at the Copenhagen documentary film festival CPH:DOX this week. Director Gorki Glaser-Müller’s documentary focuses on...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad discussed Russian vaccine supplies to Syria and cooperation against COVID-19 during a phone call on Monday, the Kremlin said. In a readout of the call, the Kremlin also said Assad had told Putin about preparations...

At least 13,600  unaccompanied children arrived in the EU countries in 2020, including 2,300 Syrian children, t he European Statistics Bureau said . The share of Syrian children out of the total number of underage refugee children reached 17%, coming in the second place after...

(AP) — A recording of Iran's foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has been leaked, providing a rare look inside the country's theocracy. The release of the comments by Mohammad Javad Zarif set off a firestorm within...

ISTANBUL (AP) — More than 100 people linked to a pro-Kurdish party went on trial Monday in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, for their alleged involvement in violent protests nearly seven years ago. Prosecutors have charged the 108 defendants with 29 crimes, including the murders of 37 people...

Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color. The “Nomadland”...

Anthony Hopkins has won his first Oscar since he was victorious for playing Hannibal Lecter. Despite his pedigree, Hopkins was a surprise as the winner of the Academy Award for best actor for his work on “The Father.” The late Chadwick Boseman was expected to win the award,...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The holy city of Jerusalem, a tinderbox of competing religious and political claims, has repeatedly triggered bouts of Israeli-Palestinian violence. This time around, there have been some additional sparks, including Jewish extremists who, emboldened by their political...

Kurdish internal security  reached a permanent truce with pro-regime forces after days of deadly clashes in the northeastern Qamishli city due to a Russian mediation, Kurdish media outlets said Sunday. 'We abide by the Russian-brokered truce unless being breached or violated by the...

 Lebanese troops aborted early Sunday an attempt to smuggle dozens of Syrian migrants to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the military said. The attempt to smuggle 69 Syrian citizens comes as Lebanon is witnessing a severe economic and financial crisis that has thrown more...

Hundreds of thousands of students in government-controlled parts of Syria began taking final exams Sunday after a three-week schools closure to limit the spread of the coronavirus, state news agency SANA reported. Syria has witnessed a sharp increase in cases in recent weeks leading to...

Israeli police and Palestinians scuffled outside Jerusalem's Old City walls overnight into Sunday as tensions flared during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed for calm. Hundreds of police officers in riot gear deployed around the...

Rebels in northern Chad are ready to observe a ceasefire and to discuss a political settlement after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby last week, a rebel spokesman said on Sunday. The rebels, known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), came over the...

  A fire sparked by an oxygen tank explosion killed at least 82 people and injured 110 at a hospital in Baghdad that had been equipped to house COVID-19 patients, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. "We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such...

At least three people died when an Iranian fuel tanker was attacked off Syria’s coast on Saturday, in the first assault of its kind since the Syrian civil war started a decade ago, a war monitor said. “At least three Syrians were killed, including two members of the crew,” said Rami...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had avoided it...

Syria’s oil ministry said a fire has erupted in a tanker on its coast after what it said was a suspected drone attack on Saturday. The official state news agency said the fire in the oil tanker outside Baniyas refinery has been extinguished. The oil ministry said the fire...

The Syrian regime received the first batch of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines on Saturday, a gift of 150,000 jabs to Damascus, Syrian and Chinese officials said. The Chinese vaccines arrived in Damascus airport where they were received by Syria’s Health Minister Hassan Ghabbash and China’s...

SRINAGAR, India — For the third day in a row, India set a global daily record with 346,786 coronavirus cases. That increased India’s total to more than 16 million cases, behind only the United States. The Health Ministry reported another 2,624 deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing...

Kurdish security forces on Saturday have handed over the Russian military police 3 bodies of pro-regime National Defense militia who were killed in the past 72 hours clashes in Qamishli city, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  The calm in the northeastern city followed a Russian-brokered...