Syrian air defenses were activated in the capital Damascus and its southern suburbs Sunday night to repel an Israeli missile attack, state media reported. There was no word on casualties.State TV quoted an unnamed military official as sayin...

A Russian Mi-35 helicopter made an emergency landing due to technical problems during a flight over Syria’s northern Hasaka province, state agencies quoted Russia’s Defense Ministry as saying on Sunday.“The crew was quickly evacuated to the...

The United States launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups.President Joe Biden said Friday that Iran should view his decision to authorise US airstrikes in Sy...

A gas pipeline was attacked in eastern Syria Saturday causing fire but no casualties, state media reported.SANA said the attack occurred in the area known as Abu Khashab in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq.No one claim...

An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing out of the Middle East on Friday, an unexplained blast renewing concerns about ship security in the region amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.The crew and vessel were s...

Bangladesh is under "no obligation" to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister A.K. Abdul Momen.India's coast guard found...

President Joe Biden held a long-delayed first phone call Thursday with Saudi King Salman ahead of an imminent US intelligence report expected to link the Arab kingdom's powerful crown prince to the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khas...

Hamas has warned Israel against meddling in Palestinian national elections, saying it may lead to their postponement. In a statement following a meeting chaired by its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, the resistance movement condemned the occupation...

The Azerbaijani president said on Friday that he hopes Armenia will abide by Nov. 10 cease-fire deal to prevent further escalation.Attending a virtual news conference, Ilham Aliyev said Armenia's political crisis resulted from its occupying...

In November 2016, the month Donald Trump was elected US president, a Saudi delegation of top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited New York, where they met members of the Trump transition team.Upon their return home, the delegat...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s interior minister on Thursday said he was in Lebanon looking to repatriate more Albanians related to other nationals who had joined Islamic extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.Bledi Cuci, in Beirut in the las...

A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of their militiamen and wounding a number of others, an Iraqi militia official said Friday.The official told The Associated...

The UN dispatched 63 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria on Thursday, where millions remain in need of assistance because of internal conflict.The aid passed through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province and will...

Citing “disturbing new food security data” published by the World Food Programme (WFP), Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock stated that some 60 per cent of the population “do not have regular access to enough safe...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Bahrain's Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa Thursday about the Gulf state's possible involvement in establishing a vaccine plant in Israel, a statement from the Israeli lead...

The perpetrators of a 1992 massacre by Armenian forces in the town of Khojaly in Nagorno-Karabakh which left over 600 people dead should be punished, the head of the World Azerbaijani Congress said Wednesday.Asif Kurban said in a statement...

The Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza released 45 prisoners affiliated with rival Palestinian faction Fatah on Thursday.In a statement, it said the released prisoners were arrested over security issues that harmed resistance groups in Gaz...

Syria’s rebel-held northwest will receive its first shipment of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine by the end of next month, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.The doses were procured through the UN body’s Covax program, which aim...

A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's secret police was convicted Wednesday by a German court of facilitating the torture of prisoners in a landmark ruling that human rights activists hope will set a precedent for other cases i...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime had executed one of its top chemical weapons scientists by firing squad in 2001, after he had been exposed as a US intelligence agent since 1988, The Times revealed on Monday.The newspaper reported that, “Known to t...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and US President Joe Biden spoke by phone Tuesday, discussing a range of topics. "I spoke to @POTUS today. We reaffirmed our commitment to bolstering Iraqi-US ties for the benefit of our peoples and c...

Human rights campaigners and torture survivors are closely watching a verdict expected from a German court Wednesday in the trial of a former member of the Syrian secret police, hoping the decision will set a precedent for other cases.Eyad...

Delegations from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar met in Kuwait on Monday for the first time since an agreement last month to end a rift of more than three years, the UAE state news agency WAM said.Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt...

The Syrian regime has authorized the use of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, its embassy in Moscow said Monday.The country is the latest to approve the Russian vaccine, named after the Soviet-era satellite. Sputnik V was regist...

Israeli forces rounded up 20 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian NGO on Monday.“Twenty Palestinians were detained by the Israeli military last night,” Amani Sarhana, a spokesperson for t...