WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will provide more than $596 million in new humanitarian aide to respond to the Syrian crisis, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. The assistance is designed to help many of the estimated 13.4 million Syrians inside Syria, as...

A Syrian man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2015 and was running for a seat in parliament in his new country's September election said Tuesday that he is withdrawing his candidacy. Tareq Alaows, who joined the Green party last year and was running as its candidate in a...

Turkey is reinstating weekend lockdowns in most of Turkey’s provinces and will also impose restrictions over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. Virus infections in Turkey have soared less than a month after the country divided its 81 provinces...

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife have recovered from COVID-19 and returned to their regular duties on Tuesday, three weeks after they had tested positive for the coronavirus, the president's office said. According to the statement, Syria's first couple had their PCR tests and...

The European Union’s home affairs commissioner was meeting Tuesday with Greece’s prime minister and foreign minister, a day after touring two of the eastern islands in the Aegean Sea most heavily affected by migration into Europe. The EU is currently working on a new migration pact to...

BERLIN (AP) — The German state of Berlin has again suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for those aged under 60 due to new reports of unusual blood clots in people who have received the shots, officials said Tuesday. The decision was taken as a precaution ahead of a...

German authorities deported two Syrian refugees last Wednesday after a police raid on the Wolfhager-Pomerania district at dawn and took the two siblings, Marfan and Katia Khadr, and put them on a plane bound for Bulgaria, activists said. Katia, 18, told HNA channel that her mother had a...

SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Experts boarded the massive container ship Tuesday that had blocked Egypt's vital Suez Canal and disrupted global trade for nearly a week, seeking answers to a single question that could have billions of dollars in legal repercussions: What went wrong? As convoys of...

The United Nations will urge international donors to pledge up to $10 billion on Tuesday to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the need for humanitarian support has never been so great. In the fifth annual conference to keep...

The European Union's top officials will travel to Turkey next week for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after EU leaders agreed to improve cooperation on migration and trade with Ankara. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel...

The number of foreigners living in Germany increased by 1.8% last year, the lowest rate in a decade, according to official figures released Monday. The Federal Statistical Office said the foreign-born population rose by about 204,000 to 11.4 million, in a year when Germany and other...

Despite the worsening humanitarian situation across war-ravaged Syria, it's been getting tougher every year to raise money from global donors. The aid community is bracing for significant shortfalls ahead of a donor conference that starts Monday in Brussels and is being co-hosted by the...

Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...

At age 19, Fatima al-Omar is at her wits' end. In the last year alone, she lost her home to fighting in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She became the sole breadwinner for her mother, three siblings and grandmother as they moved around between shelters....

Lebanese group Hezbollah has provided military training to 220 pro-Assad regime Shabiha militants in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, according to local sources. A three-week training camp was organized by two Hezbollah commanders codenamed al-Hajj Mahdi and al-Hajj Salih, said the sources...

Syrian actors from the restive city of Idlib staged a play describing conditions in prisons of the Bashar al-Assad regime. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, actor Zekeriya Seflo said that they will continue their efforts for the release of prisoners. "We will continue to...

After a days-long stuck ship crisis, traffic in the Suez Canal has gone back to normal, said the head of the canal authority Monday. Osama Rabi's statement came after reports circulated that strong winds had driven the stranded ship back to its previous position in the canal....

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a phone call from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during which they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries, according to the state news agency QNA. The contact is the second between the two leaders since Qatar signed...

Along Iraq's borders, a corrupt customs-evasion cartel is diverting billions of dollars away from state coffers to line the pockets of armed groups, political parties and crooked officials. The prime beneficiaries are Iran-linked Shiite paramilitaries that intimidate federal officials...

Influential parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri said on Monday that Lebanon would sink like the Titanic if it could not form a government. “We will all sink, with no exceptions,” MTV television quoted him as saying at the opening of a session of parliament. Prime minister-designate...