Egypt and Libya signed memorandums of understanding in the Libyan capital Tuesday during an official visit by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli.  The memorandums include the resumption of civilian flights between the two countries. "I instructed the [Egyptian]...

Saudi Arabia's crown prince and Greece's foreign minister have discussed aspects of cooperation Tuesday following a defense agreement signed between the two countries. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias met in the capital Riyadh, the Saudi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apart from China and despite a worldwide drop in death sentences, countries in the Middle East remained among the world’s leading executioners last year, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The number of executions worldwide plummeted to its lowest...

Syria appointed Issam Hazima as governor of its central bank on Tuesday, state media said, a week after his predecessor was sacked following criticism of his handling of a currency crisis that has seen the Syrian pound fall to record lows. Hazima, who had been one of two deputies of...

Lawyers representing victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria filed a criminal complaint with Swedish police on Monday, calling for an investigation into the role of officials in President Bashar al-Assad's government. Allegations of war crimes can be investigated by Swedish police...

LONDON (AP) — All six English clubs dramatically abandoned plans to join a breakaway Super League on Tuesday, threatening to implode the project by a group of elite English, Spanish and Italian clubs less than two days after it was announced. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester...

A group of British academics was secretly in contact with Russian diplomats in four separate embassies as they worked to undermine evidence that Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people, according to emails seen by The Daily Beast. The documents were obtained as...

In his short documentary, ' Youth  Holocaust', Syrian director Mustafa Abu Hasna focuses  on the emergence of extremism and its severe impacts  on the Syrian conflict. The film seeks  to refute the claim that extremism is caused by religious texts, a major problem...

A woman from the capital Damascus has applied to run for president of Syria, the parliament speaker said Tuesday, making her the first female to make a bid for the country's top job. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by President Bashar Assad. The presidential election,...

WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A gunman shot three workers inside a manager's office at a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing one of them, police said. A manhunt was underway for the gunman, who had also worked at the store, said Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder....

 The annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday (April 20) that journalism was at least partly blocked in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed. Its World Press Freedom Index found that journalism was "totally blocked or seriously impeded" in 73...

Zaman Al-Wasl will suspend publishing for an hour on Tuesday (between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Damascus time) in mourning for the veteran Michel Kilo who died of COVID-19 in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against the Assad regime.  Kilo, who turned 80 last year,...

The global chemical weapon watchdog will this week decide whether to impose sanctions on Syria after it confirmed that the Bashar Assad regime used chlorine gas in a 2018 attack on an opposition region. Member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...

The UN on Tuesday sent 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria's northwestern Idlib province. The trucks carrying food and tents crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among the needy people in...

A total of five people, including at least three terror suspects, were arrested on Turkey’s both northwestern and southern borders while trying to flee to Greece and Syria through illegal means, according to the National Defense Ministry on Tuesday. The ministry said on Twitter that one...

Denmark recently became the first European country to begin denying temporary residence status to Syrian refugees. The move reflects internal Danish politics but also represents a threat to individual Syrians, with potentially much larger consequences if other European countries follow...

MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) — The deceptions, distrust and divisions in European soccer erupted in public on Monday between teams and even within the clubs breaking away to form a Super League that could leave them and their players outcasts in the global game. Condemnation of the 12...

(The New York Times)-  As the sun set, children in dirty clothes and battered shoes herded sheep past the towering stone walls of a Byzantine settlement abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, leading them into an ancient cave nearby where the animals would spend the night....

The Russian military said Monday that its airstrike killed about 200 militants in eastern Syria. Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, the head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said Russian warplanes hit two militant hideouts northeast of Palmyra. Karpov said in a...

Read  Michel Kilo's last message to the Syrian people from his sickbed on April 7. Prominent exiled opposition figure Michel Kilo died of Covid-19 on Monday in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against Baath party rule in Syria, colleagues said....