At least one civilian was killed and 12 others injured in a bomb blast in northern Syria on Saturday, local sources said. Terrorists blew up an explosives-laden vehicle in a crowded market in Cobanbey town in Aleppo province, the sources said. Shops in the area were heavily damaged and...

Saudi Arabia said it foiled a Huthi drone attack on a southern airport Saturday just days before the new US administration is to stop designating the Yemeni rebels as a "terror" group. Saudi air defences "intercepted and destroyed a drone rigged with explosives which had been launched by...

Lebanese security forces fired volleys of tear gas at protesters trying to remove barbed wire outside the military court in Beirut. Dozens of Lebanese protesters took to the streets in Beirut on Friday, demanding the release of activists detained following riots in northern Lebanon late...

Lebanon is set to receive 100 army vehicles free of charge from Britain to bolster the country's defence against Daesh. The Land Rovers will be supplied to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Land Border Regiments which patrol the north and north-east border with Syria. "[They will] further...

Everyone wishes to see an end to the Palestinian division and to the political rift which have been ongoing for a decade and a half. But the end of this division cannot be achieved through agreements that neglect the basis of the crisis and ignore the main cause of the conflict, which is the...

Russia has been developing the Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia in western Syria in preparation for it to receive strategic nuclear bombers as part of plans to strengthen the Russian presence in the country, Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported. The paper said Russia is modernising the...

The Syrian government intends to seize property and assets of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people who fail to pay exorbitant fees - already one of the administration's biggest sources of income - in exchange for military service exemptions. Brigadier General Elias Bitar, head...

More than 2 million Yemeni children under the age of 5 are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies said Friday, urging stakeholders to end the yearslong conflict that has brought the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of famine. The U.N. report...

Fifteen Turkish crew members of a cargo ship who were kidnapped by pirates last month off west Africa have been freed, a shipping company announced Friday. Boden Denizcilik said all 15 seamen were safe and had made contact with their families. They would be flown back to Turkey as soon...

About 400,000 children under the age of five are in danger of dying of acute malnutrition in war-torn and impoverished Yemen, UN agencies warned Friday. They said half of those in the most vulnerable age bracket, or 2.3 million small children, are projected to suffer from severe...

Enis Berberoglu, a deputy in Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), officially regained his position as an MP on Thursday after an Istanbul court halted criminal complaints against him. Berberoglu had been convicted of disclosing confidential state documents...

The general supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, met Timothy Lenderking, the US special envoy to Yemen, at the center’s headquarters in Riyadh on Thursday. In the meeting, they discussed humanitarian and relief affairs in...

At least 12 Iranian-backed terrorists fighting with the Bashar al-Assad regime were killed in an airstrike conducted by US-led anti-Daesh/ISIS coalition forces in eastern Syria, sources said Thursday. Warplanes targeted a convoy of terrorist groups in Deir ez-Zor province. Pipelines and...

Turkey’s presidential spokesman urged the US on Thursday to end its support for the PYD/YPG terrorist group.  “The US should end its support to the PYD/YPG. It should say 'stop' to FETO's activities there,” said Ibrahim Kalin during an interview with TRT Haber, Turkey’s state-run news...

Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of Okba, Almashan’s older brother, was among thousands of graphic images...

Lawyers for Donald Trump take the Senate floor Friday to rebut the Democratic-led impeachment of the former president for inciting insurrection, with Republican lawmakers then widely expected to vote to acquit. Democratic impeachment managers rested their case Thursday after two days of...

NEW YORK (AP) — Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79. Corea died Tuesday of a rare form of cancer, his team posted on his website. His death was...

Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of Okba, Almashan’s older brother, was among thousands of graphic...

Survivors of torture in Syrian prisons and families of those still detained or missing launched their first collective appeal to the international community on Wednesday. Their message is simple: stop torture in detention facilities immediately and reveal the fate of tens of thousands...

“As long as the script remains not shot by a camera, the drawer becomes its coffin,” with these words, twin Syrian directors Mohamed and Ahmed Malas explained, turning their original idea of a feature film to the short film “Syrians in Wonderland”, due to production conditions. ...