Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Friday said the COVID-19 vaccines produced in the US and the UK are banned in Iran, asserting he does not trust their efficacy. His remarks came during a televised speech on the occasion marking the 42nd anniversary of the uprising against the...

The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in several states, with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days before the pro-President Donald Trump riot at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. The police...

Turkey has established five PCR testing labs to diagnose coronavirus infections in northern Syria, local authorities said on Thursday. The Sanliurfa Governorship said in a statement that its Syria Support and Coordination Center coordinated with Assistance Coordination Unit, an NGO...

A Syrian doctor who narrowly avoided deportation from the UK has volunteered to administer COVID-19 vaccines after receiving permission to stay in the country. Dr. Bashar Al-Hana had been living in the northern English town of Darlington for two years after fleeing war-torn Syria....

Syria TV condemned the assassination attempt against the news outlet’s reporter Bahaa Al-Halabi and called for justice, saying in a statement late Thursday “we strongly condemn this act of crime which targeted our colleague who was trying to do his duty and be faithful to his job.”...

A huge fire erupted in a truck at a border crossing between Syria and Jordan on Thursday, Syrian opposition activists said. There was no immediate information about what caused the blaze or whether there were any casualties. According to activists, the truck was carrying flammable...

Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema is to face trial for complicity in an attempt to blackmail in a case linked to a sex tape featuring his former France teammate Mathieu Valbuena, French prosecutors said Thursday. Benzema, 33, made 81 international appearances but has not been selected...

The first round of President Donald Trump's supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a brazen attack on the seat of government were due in court to face charges on Thursday, as police stepped up their search for perpetrators of violence. In a late-night news conference, Metropolitan...

More than 30 people were killed in assassinations and explosions carried out by the Assad regime in the Daraa province of Syria since early December 2020, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports. According to the rights group, SOHR activists have monitored military build-ups...

Dr Raba al-Sayed looked across the Euphrates river towards her family home in the east Syrian town of Al-Bukamal in Deir ez-Zor and was gripped by trepidation. It was November 2017. With her husband, Adnan al-Jassim, and their four children, the family had finally managed to escape Islamic...

The first blast occurred in Ras al-Ain, when a car bomb exploded in a market area on a main road, killing two children and injuring their mother and several others.  At least three shops were also damaged.   The second incident took place near a bakery in Jinderis, located in...

Strikes conducted overnight by Israel in Syria left three fighters from Iran-backed groups dead, a war monitor reported on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization with an extensive network on the ground, was not immediately able to provide the casualties’...

An alleged Israeli airstrike targeted locations in southern Syria as explosions were heard in the skies over Damascus on Wednesday night, according to Syrian state media SANA. The strikes were launched from the Golan Heights, a Syrian military source told SANA, claiming that most of the...

 A Palestinian human rights monitoring has released an executive summary of the general situation of Palestinian refugees inside and outside Syria in 2020. A report by the Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria highlighted the changes in the general situation of Palestinian...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the...

ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach. A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested 53 former lawmakers and democracy proponents Wednesday for allegedly violating the new national security law by participating in unofficial election primaries for the territory's legislature last year. The mass arrests, including of former...

The Syrian regime, backed by close ally Russia, clashed with the United States and other nations Tuesday over a Western initiative to suspend the Syrian regime's voting rights within the global chemical weapons watchdog for failing to provide details of three chemical attacks in 2017 that...

A Turkish humanitarian group on Tuesday announced that 153 million loaves of bread were distributed to war-hit families from Syria in 2020. Cuneyt Kilic, the vice chairman of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), said 12 bakeries in Turkey and the border region with Syria had helped...