Israel’s military said it launched Patriot anti-aircraft on Sunday at an incoming drone from Syria, which turned away unscathed, reports Reuters. A Syrian commander said the pilotless plane was...

The Syrian army will regain control of the country’s north by force if rebels there refuse to surrender, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian television channel...

US-backed forces in control of Syria’s Raqqa city imposed a three-day curfew on Sunday and declared a state of emergency saying Daesh militants had infiltrated the city and planned...

The Syrian army and allied forces pounded rebel-held areas of the southwest as thousands of civilians fled to safer opposition held areas along the border with Jordan and Israel,...

Iraq has launched an air attack on a gathering of Daesh leaders inside neighbouring Syria, killing 45 members of the hardline militant group, its military said on Saturday. F-16...

A Syrian mother rejoined her two children in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa province after a-three-year search with help from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). Nur Naser was living with her...

The International Committee for Observing Hajj Administration has condemned Saudi Arabia’s ban on Qatari and Syrian citizens performing the pilgrimage, Echoroukonline.com reported on Friday. The Saudis have prevented Syrians...

As Turkey approaches the presidential and parliamentary elections this weekend, its economic challenges have dominated the headlines. Soaring inflation rates and a plunging lira have marked the country’s turbulent...

The rate of suicide amongst the youth in Lebanon is rising at an alarming rate according to health professions. As many as one suicide attempts are being reported every...

Syria is ready to establish a railway link with Iraq and Iran, the country’s Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Mohammad Samer Al-Khalil, said. The proposal came during a...

A war monitor reported Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held areas of the southwest today for the first time in a year, escalating an assault that has...

The first time Talal Hasan met Omar Almahel they slept side by side on a piece of cardboard at a train station in Brussels. Not long after this the...

A Syrian army officer was killed in a US strike on a Syrian army outpost near a US base close to the Iraqi-Syrian border, a commander in the regional...

Egypt has called on the international community to “share the collective responsibilities of hosting refugees,” Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Wednesday. “We renew...

The UN’s Independent Commission of Inquiry has characterised the siege imposed by the Syrian regime on eastern Ghouta as “war crimes and crimes against humanity”. The commission said in...

A Libyan research centre has said that the crisis in Syria is one of the most pressing issues in Turkish politics at this time, Quds Press has reported. “Syria...

Asylum seekers moving to Europe have raised their adopted nations’ economic output, lowered unemployment and not placed a burden on public finances, scientists said on Wednesday, reports the Thomson Reuters Foundation....

Generals from Syria, Iran and Russia convened at the joint-intel centre (JIC) inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone last week to discuss matters of national security and cooperation. The meeting...

The US embassy in Baghdad yesterday denied US responsibility for air strikes that killed dozens of Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighters near the Syrian-Iraqi border. US Ambassador to Baghdad...

Figures released by UN refugee agency make for grim reading. According to the UNHCR the number of displaced people worldwide is estimated at 65.6 million, of which 22.5 million...

Eight Kenyan soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack on Sunday in northern Wajir County, VOA News reported yesterday. The Kenyan security forces were patrolling the Kenya-Somali border when...

Israel is behind an attack on the Iraq-Syria border that left dozens of militia fighters dead, CNN reported yesterday, citing a US official. An airstrike on Sunday night targeting...

The United States Department of Defence has denied claims that it carried out an attack on pro-Syrian regime fighters in the country’s war-torn eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor. “This...

Europe is facing its most significant refugee crisis since World War Two. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because those charged with doing so have ignored...

After Donald Trump’s recognition of the illegal Israeli annexation of Jerusalem by moving his country’s embassy to the city, the next prize that some in American and Israeli political...

Some 30,000 Syrians who have been granted Turkish citizenship will vote in Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, broadcaster NTV quoted Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying today. President Recep...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by telephone on Monday and discussed Syria and problems of the Korean peninsula, Russia’s foreign ministry...

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late on Monday that it “expresses rejection and condemnation of any air operations targeting forces in areas where they are fighting ISIS...

Syrian state media, citing a military source, reported early on Monday that US-led coalition aircraft had bombed “one of our military positions” in eastern Syria, leading to deaths and...

Jewish artefacts, including ancient parchment torahs from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of ongoing civil war, with some...

Vladimir Ivanovsky, the head of Russia’s Military Police Directorate, arrived in Israel late Friday to discuss developments in Syria with Israeli officials. While in Israel, Ivanovsky – who is...

This year’s Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Iran was staged with greater fanfare than ever, not least because of rising tensions with Israel. Last month Israel claimed to have staged...