Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland on Friday, a day...
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Israel of using the Druze minority in Syria as a pretext for...
Flash opinion polls conducted in the wake of first-round voting in France's presidential election Sunday forecast that Emmanuel Macron will...Macron advanced to the run-off against Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader who is again forecast by polls to qualify for the second round this year.
Polls suggest a repeat of the Macron-Le Pen contest would be much closer this year, in line with a rightward drift among the French electorate in recent years.
Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that Washington is "imposing new conditions" in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement."On the issue of lifting sanctions, they (the Americans) are interested in proposing and imposing new conditions outside the negotiations," IRNA quoted the minister
Iran has been engaged for a year in negotiations with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the US indirectly in the Austrian capital to revive the deal
More than a thousand Tunisians rallied Sunday decrying what they said was a power grab by President Kais Saied and..."Get out," protesters in the capital Tunis shouted at a rally organized by the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party that dominated the now-dissolved parliament
"The people want to dismiss the president," the crowds chanted, many waving national flags. "Down with the coup"
In a bombed-out building in northwest Syria, rescue workers who for years have braved Russia's war strategies film a tutorial...The video which offers a range of other rescue initiatives is the latest example of how Syrians are mobilizing to share with Ukrainians knowledge gleaned from war
"As first responders, we believe that we can share our experiences in Syria with humanitarian aid workers in Ukraine," volunteer rescuer Ismail al-Abdullah tells the camera
Syria has over the past few months repeatedly accused the US of using its forces to steal oil from its...Local sources in the Yarubiya countryside said that US forces on Saturday brought out a convoy of 60 vehicles
This, they said, included a number of trucks and tens of tanks loaded with ‘stolen Syrian oil’ being taken to Iraq
The UN chief said countries need to fulfil and accelerate dose-sharing and donation commitments in order to reach the billions...Antonio Guterres said the spread of Omicron was “a startling reminder of how quickly COVID-19 can mutate and spread
The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is now surging in the form of the BA2 variant in many parts of the world
- Across the MENA region, people are struggling to secure even the most basic staples in view of soaring food and...
More than 17 million people in Yemen face high levels of food insecurity
Famine conditions already afflict more than 30,000 Yemenis, UN agencies said
Evacuations resumed on Saturday from Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 52 people at a railway station...US President Joe Biden accused Russia of being behind a "horrific atrocity" in Kramatorsk, and France also condemned the strike
Moscow denied responsibility for the rocket attack on the station, which also wounded 109 people, according to the latest official count
Experts say the chances of reforms will remain slim so long as the permanent members refuse to accept any dilution...UN members look for major reforms, including the veto power
South African President said that Security Council need to 'democratized'
The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security..."Each day that passes with the camp still there, hate grows and terrorism thrives," Iraq's national security adviser, Qassem al-Araji, told an international conference
The overcrowded camp is controlled by the autonomous Kurdish administration and lies less than 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Iraqi border
