According to officials of the US-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State group, two fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were destroyed by defensive capabilities at the Iraqi Al-Asad Air Base.

France detained a 60-year-old French-Syrian man on suspicion of conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity.

More than half of Gaza's roughly two million population are descended from Palestinian refugees who fled their homes when Israel was created in 1948, and who today depend on United Nations aid. The UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, does not consider Syrian refugees to be their responsibility and only...

The annual appeal by UN agencies and other humanitarian organisations said that providing aid to the 183 million most vulnerable people across 63 countries next year would require $41 billion.

Based on the 2020 transfers, arms stockpiles remain high and sufficient to sustain any future conflict," the experts said.

Syria is an important destination for Shiite pilgrims, and has continued to welcome visitors from Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon during the conflict. However, European tourists —a constant before fighting started in 2011 — have not been visiting for a decade.

The trip comes less than a year after Morocco normalized ties with Israel in a deal brokered by former US president Donald Trump's administration.

The airline cited the Belarus-Poland border crisis as a reason.

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley has warned that more people in Syria are in the grips of hunger than at any time in the country’s decade-long conflict. He blamed a deadly combination fighting, climate change, Covid-19, and rising food and fuel costs for the problems.

Morocco controls 80 percent of the largely desert territory, which has mineral reserves and access to rich Atlantic fisheries, as well as providing a potentially strategic trade route linking Morocco with West African markets.

The visits of several Israeli ministers so far show the importance the Jewish state attributes to the event.

Iraq's relations with Iran have improved since the fall of Saddam and, since 2017, the ties with Saudi Arabia have also become better.

Around 80 percent of its 30 million people depend on international relief and aid groups complain of financing shortfalls.

Aleppo, long considered one of Syria's main commercial hubs, has lost many of the merchants and businessmen who once gave the city its economic edge

Leaders from around the MENA region are arriving in Baghdad for a summit meant to lower tensions in the region. The meeting is a chance for Iraq to showcase its recent efforts to be a neutral mediator.

Without water resilience, the MENA region may see a loss of 6-14 percent of the collective GDP by 2050, says the latest World Bank report.

Yemen's conflict flared in 2014 when Iran-backed Huthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa