Lionel Messi scored twice, including a stunning solo goal, as Barcelona blew away Athletic Bilbao to win the Copa del Rey on Saturday, consigning their opponents to a second final defeat in two weeks. The cup was won and lost in a whirlwind 12 minutes in Seville, which saw Barca score...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Navy divers recovered another body on Saturday from a migrant boat that floundered and sunk off the coast of eastern Tunisia, bringing to 22 the number of known dead, including nine women and a baby, as police searched for the smuggler. An estimated 40 people were...

MOSCOW (AP) — A doctor for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, says his health is deteriorating rapidly and the 44-year-old Kremlin critic could be on the verge of death. Physician Yaroslav Ashikhmin said Saturday that test...

Denmark's latest crackdown on vulnerable Syrian refugees has not come as a surprise. In 2019, the Danish government declared some parts of Syria "safe" - a designation with no basis in reality, and one that has been strongly condemned by international human rights groups and the UNHCR....

Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, has put forth a draft agreement designed to promote progress at the next round of talks on Syria’s constitution in Geneva. Copies of the proposed plan were sent to the two co-chairs of the Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC), Ahmad Kuzbari, who...

WINDSOR, England (AP) — Prince Philip will be remembered as a man of “courage, fortitude and faith” on Saturday, at a funeral that salutes both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth II over three quarters of a century. Philip, who died April 9 at the age of...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran named a suspect Saturday in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the country “hours before” the sabotage happened. While the extent of the damage from the April 11 sabotage remains unclear, it comes as Iran...

The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France. The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is...

Until Wednesday, Syria's central bank governor Hazem Qarfoul was praised by the state-run media as an intelligent problem solver able to manage the  recent Syrian pound crisis.  However, by afternoon, soon after Bashar al-Assad issued a decree dismissing Qarfoul, the...

The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has launched a chain of supermarkets that are stocked with Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian products at reduced prices that are accessible with a party-issued card. It’s a welcome initiative in a country crippled by a financial crisis and food shortages. But critics...

Two Liwa al-Quds militants were killed in an ambush by Daesh in the Badia desert, the second ambush of its kind in four days targeting pro-Syrian regime Palestinian militia in eastern Syria, sources said Friday.   The attack took place in the Kabajeb desert area east of Deir Ezzor...

Heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib has killed 96 combatants over the past two days as Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government's last northern toehold, loyalist commanders said Friday. "Clashes between the two sides on several fronts in the Marib area on Wednesday...

Members of the US Congress have urged the Biden administration to implement all provisions of the Caesar Act to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its allies. During a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Global...

Italy will ease coronavirus restrictions for schools and restaurants from April 26, Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced Friday, in response to increasing lockdown fatigue in the country. Expressing "cautious optimism", Draghi said his government was taking a "calculated risk"...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was one of the more tantalizing, yet unresolved, questions of the investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: Why was a business associate of campaign chairman Paul Manafort given internal polling data — and what did...

The Syrian refugee Abd al-Wahhab Assi has donated the crops of 2000 square metres of land he invested in Algeria to the Syrian refugees, pledging to donate 5 hectares next year that will be distributed to all major centers in Algerian cities. Assi, a mechanical engineer from Aleppo,...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic. Five people...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed on Thursday that the Syrian regime has dropped nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in nine years, killing 11,087 civilians, including 1,821 children.   The 35-page report describes barrel bombs as a primitive, barbaric weapon, adding that...

Syria devalued the official price of its local currency on Thursday two days after the central bank governor was sacked, state media reported. The decision came after the Syrian pound crashed over the recent months in the war-torn country, hitting records low and throwing more Syrians...

 The Biden administration announced Thursday the U.S. is expelling 10 Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions against dozens of companies and other people, holding the Kremlin accountable for interference in last year's presidential election and the hacking of federal agencies....