Hassake, Syria, Aug 19, 2017 (AFP) - Syriac Orthodox Christians in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh celebrated the inauguration of the community's new bishop on Saturday, four years after the last one left the country.
Turkey on Saturday lashed out at "arrogant" German reaction to comments by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urging ethnic Turks in Germany to vote against both parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition.
A car bomb on Saturday hit the Syrian port city of Latakia with reports of injuries, the Lebanese Hezbollah group's al Manar television station and a monitor said
Senior U.S. military leaders said Friday that Iraqi forces are largely set for their next major campaign against Daesh (ISIS) extremists after closing out the wrenching nine-month battle to retake the city of Mosul.
President Donald Trump has approved a long-delayed Pentagon plan to create an independent and more aggressive cyber command in order to beef up cyberwar...
President Bashar Assad’s victory in Homs is still evident in the rubble of Bab Amr, a former symbol of the rebellion where five years later only a handful of...
Gunmen killed seven family members of an Iraqi police officer, including a teenage son, in a predawn attack Friday on their home near the northern city of...
Five weeks after securing victory in Mosul, Iraqi forces have moved into positions around the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in the U.S.-backed...
Navigating a chaotic maze of cars and people, the convoy of British army armored vehicles weaves slowly through Kabul.
Australia’s widening citizenship crisis entangled a seventh politician Friday, a key independent senator whose support is critical for Prime Minister Malcolm...
At 93, Elias al-Najjar has spent half a century harvesting salt by hand from ponds on Lebanon’s Mediterranean shore, but he and his colleagues fear their way...
Despite the security developments that shook the camp Thursday, a security source told The Daily Star that Ain al-Hilweh is unlikely to descend into further...
The wires protruding from the small, misshapen stuffed animal revealed the deadly booby trap tucked inside.
From the increasingly fraught trek through the Sahara to violence in Libya, asylum seekers rescued this week in the Mediterranean say the obstacles to...
An Israeli Cabinet minister has said relations with U.S. President Donald Trump take priority over condemning neo-Nazis, to justify Prime Minister Benjamin...
Defend Europe, the group which sent a ship to waters off Libya to protest and potentially block migrant flows to Europe, has ended its controversial and...
Israel’s Supreme Court has frozen implementation of a law legalizing dozens of Jewish settlements built on private Palestinian land, which the U.N. labeled a...
Yemeni security officials said Saudi forces have arrived in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden amid friction within the Arab-led alliance there.
Syria’s army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, a Hezbollah...
Bodies of three Moroccans suspected of Spain attacks identified: police
Hamas held a closing ceremony in the Gaza Strip on Friday for a batch of the 120,000 boys and girls attending the Islamist movement's controversial summer...
The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said Friday they had detained a senior commander two weeks before the International Criminal Court...
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Friday urged Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels to free a political commentator they detained this week in Sanaa.
Syria's army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, Hezbollah-run...
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat Party and its allies were enemies of Turkey, and...
Gunmen killed seven family members of an Iraqi police officer, including a teenage son, in a pre-dawn attack Friday on their home near the northern city of...
An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government...
Egypt has blocked access to the website of media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, adding RSF to a growing list of restricted online sites in the North...
Israel's Supreme Court has frozen implementation of a law legalising dozens of Jewish settlements built on private Palestinian land, which the UN labelled a...
Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for six years, ended his hunger strike late Thursday after the government agreed to remove...
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a draft report that the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for more than half the children killed and injured in...
Saudi Binladin Group will restart work next month on the $26.6 billion expansion of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, nearly two years after work stopped in the wake...
Washington’s main Syrian ally in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) says the U.S. military will remain in northern Syria long after the militants are defeated,...