The crackdown on Islamic State operations at the al-Hol displaced persons camp in northeastern Syria appears to be loosening the terror group’s grip on the sprawling facility.   Six days into the two-week-long operation, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces say they have...

 A Jordanian official rebuffed reports of deporting prominent Syrian refugee woman Hasna Al-Hariri to Syria, saying it's false allegations and his country will not force any refugee to return to the war-torn country. Al-Hariri came to Jordan as a refugee and Jordan gave her...

 Christians in the Holy Land marked Good Friday without the mass pilgrimages usually seen in the days leading up to Easter because of the coronavirus, and worshippers in many other predominantly Christian countries where the virus is still raging observed their second annual Holy Week with...

The UN on Thursday dispatched 29 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. The trucks crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among the needy people in Idlib and...

At least 160 displaced families live under harsh living conditions with no aid or care in the Ya’rub camp in Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Raqqa province, a local news site said Friday. The Ein Al-Furat network said that, similar to a few months ago, aid was once again delayed,...

Iran and the major powers in the agreement to keep Tehran from developing nuclear weapons said Friday they were ready to welcome the return of the United States to the deal. The chair of the group including the European Union, China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain and Iran said that...

Greece is reporting a series of incidents with Turkey's coast guard in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast, at a time of generally testy relations between the two neighbors and NATO allies. The Greek coast guard said three incidents...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities said a female suicide bomber killed herself and her baby during counterterrorism operations in a mountainous zone in struggling interior provinces. Two other Islamic extremists were killed in the security operations, according to an Interior...

Yemen’s internationally recognized government has officially accused the Iran-backed Houthis of harboring Al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists, with militants from both groups being set free to fight and spread terror among the Yemeni people. In the wake of a government report revealing the...

The US State Department has reaffirmed its position which considers the West Bank as territory occupied by Israel. "It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after the 1967 War," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on...

Leading human rights organisations in Russia have released their first comprehensive report on abuses in the decade-old conflict in Syria, condemning Moscow’s direct participation in indiscriminate bombings of civilians, its backing of the Assad regime’s use of torture, and culpability in...

Myanmar's wireless broadband internet services were shut down on Friday by order of the military, local providers said, as protesters continued to defy the threat of lethal violence to oppose the junta's takeover. A directive from the Ministry of Transport and Communications on Thursday...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The machine guns peeking over parapets of small, sandbagged concrete bunkers and the heavy artillery cannons dug deep into Himalayan Kashmir’s rugged terrain have fallen silent. At least for now. The Line of Control, a highly militarized de facto border...

(Eqtsad)- Two weeks after its rectification, the Syrian pound has one again collapsed dramatically, its value reaching 4000 to one US dollar. The exchange rate of the pound is likely to hit a new low in light of the Central Bank’s operations to reap more profit by interfering in the float...

Jordanian authorities have demanded the prominent refugee woman Hasna al-Hariri and her two sons to depart Jordan within 14 days or they will be summarily deported to Syria.   Al-Hariri told Zaman al-Wasl that she has no chance to challenge their removal amid risk of being arrested...

The mother of five children was found killed in her building in Le Havre commune in northern France's Normandy region   The tragedy occurred on Thursday in a building located in the Neiges district, rue de la Belle Etoile in Le Havre.    According to the initial...

  Four regime forces were killed in two land-mine explosions planted by Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Raqqa province, a local reporter said Thursday.   The explosion of two land mines rocked two military vehicles of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps in the Mount Bishri in Raqqa...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated a surprise Holy Thursday Mass with the cardinal he fired last year, extending an extraordinary gesture to Cardinal Angelo Becciu by celebrating the liturgy that commemorates Jesus' Last Supper with his apostles before his crucifixion. News of...

One person was injured by an improvised explosive device in the Turkish-held city of Afrin, a local reporter said Thursday. The attack follows  a series of Kurdish YPG escalations against Turkish army and allied Syrian forces. No more casualties have been reported by the...

The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard an unknown amount of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems. Emergent BioSolutions, a little-known company at the center of the...