Beirut: Heavy fighting between the Syrian army and rebels has shaken several Damascus suburbs, leaving 13 regime fighters dead, a monitoring group said...
Beirut: Heavy fighting between the Syrian army and rebels has shaken several Damascus suburbs, leaving 13 regime fighters dead, a monitoring group said...
ISTANBUL: A film looking into the life of civil defense volunteers in war-torn Syria has won an Oscar for best short documentary. “We...
BEIRUT: Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said on Wednesday, as...
Baghdad: Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it from jihadists,...
GENEVA: Almost 1,500 children have been killed and a similar number recruited by the warring sides in the Yemeni conflict, the UN said...
SANAA, Yemen: The Shia Houthi militia group has blocked Stephen O'Brien, a senior UN official, from entering Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz to...
GENEVA: The head of the opposition delegation at Syria peace talks in Geneva, Nasr al-Hariri, said that regime proposals for establishing a national...
MARDIN, Turkey: Turkish security forces killed three PKK terrorists in a clash in the southeastern Mardin province, the governor’s office said Tuesday. Three...
London: UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson criticized Russia and China for vetoing against a UN Security Council resolution that imposed new sanctions on...
Cairo: Top Muslim and Christian clerics from the Middle East gathered in Cairo on Tuesday for a two-day conference on promoting co-existence, as...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: A senior Palestinian official has been denied entry to Egypt, prompting a Palestinian delegation to withdraw in protest from a...
Mogadishu: Somali's newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" due to severe drought which aid agencies say has...
South of Mosul, Iraq: Hundreds of civilians fled through the desert Tuesday to escape fighting and privation in Mosul, joining thousands of others...
Barcelona: The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tuesday that telecoms operator Asiacell will offer free access to the website to...
Sincan, Turkey: The biggest trial of suspects accused of involvement in last year's failed July coup opened in Turkey on Tuesday in a...
CONSTANTINE, Algeria: The Islamic State terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Algeria. Algerian authorities said two policemen were...
CANAKKALE: A magnitude-4.0 earthquake shook this western province early Tuesday, according to the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). No damages were...
BERLIN: Germany’s government promised Monday to take decisive action to stop violence against refugees and asylum shelters after recent police statistics revealed more...
