Syria on Saturday lambasted the US government for sanctions it has imposed on Damascus, following a UN special rapporteur's statement that called on Washington to remove unilateral sanctions against the war-torn country. The Syrian Foreign Ministry described US sanctions against the country...

Yemen’s prime minister on Saturday said that a missile attack on the airport in Aden was meant "to eliminate" the country's new government as it arrived in the key southern city - a daring assault which he blamed on Iran-backed rebels. Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed spoke to The...

Lebanon registered 2,520 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths in a 24-hour period Saturday

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged US President Donald Trump on Saturday not to be "trapped" by an alleged Israeli plan to provoke a war through attacks on US forces in Iraq. He issued the warning on the anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian general Qassem...

A team of Turkish scientists and archaeologists discovered the remains of a 2,500-year-old Aphrodite Temple in the Urla-Cesme peninsula in Turkey's west. As a result of screening an area of 1,600 square meters that covers parts of Urla, Cesme and Seferihisar districts of Izmir, 35...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir At least 11 civilians were injured in a grenade attack on Indian forces in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police officials said. Suspected militants hurled a grenade towards Indian forces deployed near a bus stand in Tral, Awantipora in...

A car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the border town of Ras al Ain in northeast Syria with reports of several killed and wounded, the Syrian state news agency reported on Saturday. There were no further details about casualties in the report, but residents told Reuters two...

Turkey's aid to earthquake victims arrived in Croatia on Friday. The aid consisting of 272 heaters was sent by Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday rocked the town of Petrinja killing seven people and injuring 27...

Lebanon registered 2,385 coronavirus cases and 11 deaths in a 24-hour period Friday

Fourteen asylum seekers were held by Turkish gendarmerie forces in Turkey's northwestern province of Kirklareli, which borders Bulgaria, the security sources said on Saturday. The asylum seekers -- Afghan, Egyptian, and Syrian nationals -- were held as they entered the country through...

 Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at its underground Fordo nuclear facility "as soon as possible," pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over the tattered atomic deal. The move comes amid...

The scale of assassinations and arrests in southern Daraa province has hiked since December amid ongoing security chaos that has increased since the Russian-brokered settlement between the Syrian regime and opposition factions in July 2018. A report by the Ahrar Horan Group, local...

(AP) — Usually it's a president's first midterm election that reorders a White House's political approach and priorities. For President-elect Joe Biden, his most defining congressional election is coming before he takes office. Two runoffs Tuesday in Georgia will decide which party...

(AP) — Iran plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at its underground Fordo nuclear facility, international inspectors said Saturday, pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over its tattered atomic deal. The International Atomic...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's military on Saturday said explosives experts with its naval forces successfully dismantled a mine that was discovered stuck to an oil tanker in the Arab Gulf two days earlier. The statement said Iraqi authorities have opened an investigation into the incident. No group...

 Celebratory gunfire to ring in the New Year killed a Syrian woman living as a refugee in eastern Lebanon and struck an airplane parked at Beirut's airport in two separate incidents, Lebanon’s official news agency said Friday. The Syrian woman died early on Friday after a bullet...

Government ovens closed their doors to civilians in southern Sweida province amid reports new reduction in flour allocation to 16 percent, local news website reported. Sweida24 said the manager of the main oven in Sweida city had assured that regulations and instructions would not allow...

The top commander of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Friday that his country was fully prepared to respond to any U.S. military pressure, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration. Gen. Hossein...

An Iraqi explosives-handling team is working to neutralize a "large" mine discovered on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and evacuate its crew, authorities said Friday. The statement came a day after two private security firms said sailors feared they had found a limpet mine on the MT...

The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that will reduce American firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran. The decision, announced Thursday by the acting secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, came one...