War-torn Yemen received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, UNICEF said, one week after the country's coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency". "Yemen received 360,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped via the Covax facility," UNICEF said in a statement,...

Attackers gunned down a policewoman on Thursday in eastern Afghanistan as she was headed to work, provincial officials said, the latest targeted killing in the war-torn country. Provincial police spokesman Fared Khan said the officer shot in the city of Jalalabad was wounded but later...

After months of torture and interrogations in a Hamas prison, Palestinian activist Rami Aman says he was offered an unconventional proposition: Divorce your wife and you are free to go. Aman had recently signed a marriage contract with the daughter of a Hamas official, and the ruling...

Israeli senior ministers have yet to meet and discuss the official approach to the International Criminal Court’s, ICC, probe of allegations of war crimes lodged against the country, Jerusalem Post reported. The government has received official communication from international tribunal...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A popular Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup that could severely weaken President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and help its militant Hamas rivals....

Syria’s Kurdish-led forces arrested 71 suspected militants, including a religious leader and a militant recruiter, in an ongoing security sweep at a sprawling camp that houses families and supporters of the Islamic State group, a spokesman said Wednesday. The campaign, which started...

Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at...

When Fatima and her family the fled violent militias ruling over their hometown of Mosul, Iraq, in early 2018, they imagined they were heading away, not towards, mortal danger. That March, Fatima, 28, her husband and two children were smuggled across the northeastern Syrian border....

Syrian government has proceeded to 50% cut in gasoline allocations for the coastal region, Damascus and northern Aleppo provinces on Wednesday.   Pro-regime media outlets media quoted a member of the executive office of the transport sector in Lattakia, Malik al-Khayer that the move...

The US has urged its Western allies to repatriate foreign Daesh fighters and their families from Syria, warning that the camps they are being held in are breeding another generation of extremists. John Godfrey, special envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh, said victory over the...

Kosovo’s new foreign minister says she considers the opening of the country's embassy in Jerusalem to be “a done deal.” Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla was asked during an interview about the pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has put on Kosovo's new government to...

Experts dived under a colossal container ship that had been stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal before it was freed, to examine the vessel's underside, officials said Wednesday. The dives were part of a continuing investigation into what caused the grounding of the Ever Given, now...

A boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya's coast, drowning two women and three children, a U.N. official said Wednesday. It was the latest shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Safa Msehli, spokesman for the International Organization for...

Israeli election officials Wednesday handed over the results of last week's vote to President Reuven Rivlin, nudging forward the country' elusive efforts to break political deadlock, form a government and avoid an unprecedented fifth consecutive round of balloting. Rivlin is now tasked...

Syrian and Arab rights organizations have nominated lawyer Khalil Maatouk, a prominent human rights activist who has been detained by the regime nine years ago, for the Front Line Award for his relentless human rights work.      Before his arrest  at a regime military...

Protesters on Wednesday shut down the Dhi Qar oil refinery in southern Iraq amid protests over the lack of job opportunities for local residents, according to eyewitnesses. Dozens of university graduates gathered in front of the Dhi Qar oil refinery in the center of the provincial...

BAGHDAD (AP) — It was a stark message: A convoy of masked Shiite militiamen, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, drove openly through central Baghdad denouncing the U.S. presence in Iraq and threatening to cut off the prime minister's ear. The ominous display...

The Syrian Tribes Council will hold the general conference on April 6 in the Turkish-held Ras Al-Ain region in northern Hasaka province, spokesman Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday.     Mazhar Hammad Al-Asaad said 2500 tribal figures will be invited to the conference to commemorate...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union, the U.S. and dozens of other nations pledged $6.4 billion in aid Tuesday to help tackle war-ravaged Syria's deepening humanitarian and economic crises and assist neighboring countries hosting refugees, coming up short of the $10 billion the U.N. had hoped...

Greek police detained nine Syrian refugees pretending to be a volleyball team as they attempted to board a flight for Vienna, Austria, with fake travel documents. The refugees were wearing matching sports clothing and backpacks, but were stopped late on Sunday when police became...