World Oct 20 Turkish reaction: we won’t allow “cover-up” in Saudi killing Turkey will "never allow a cover-up" of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, a senior official in Turkey's ruling party said Saturday after Saudi Arabia announced hours earlier that the writer died during…
World Jul 26 Mass funerals held in southern Syria day after Islamic State attacks Mourners in southern Syria attended mass funerals Thursday for least 216 people killed in coordinated attacks by Islamic State fighters on a usually peaceful city and surrounding countryside. In the worst violence to hit the area since the country's conflict…
World Jul 22 Israel evacuates Syrian volunteers stranded in frontier area The evacuation was the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war, now in its eighth year.
World Jul 15 Syrian government targets rebels near Israel-occupied Golan BEIRUT — Syrian government forces unleashed hundreds of missiles on a rebel-held area near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, activists said, the latest phase in an offensive to clear southern Syria of insurgents. The government’s push came after it…
World May 27 Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown Elias had a journey full of rejection, protest and finally limited acceptance in a country where homosexuality and dressing as the opposite gender are against the law.
World May 10 Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage The Israeli military said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage in the occupied Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date.
World Apr 30 Missile strikes in Syria kill over a dozen, most of them Iranians A missile attack on government outposts in northern Syria killed more than a dozen pro-government fighters, many of them Iranians, a war monitoring group and an Iranian news agency said Monday. The strikes came amid soaring tensions between regional archenemies…
World Mar 19 European Union criticizes Turkey’s offensive in Syrian town of Afrin The European Union's top diplomat criticized Turkey on Monday over its military offensive in a northern Syrian town, calling on Ankara to ensure that fighting eases in the conflict-torn country.
World Mar 18 Turkey’s forces capture Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin Turkey's president said Sunday that the Turkish military and allied Syrian forces have taken "total" control of the town center of Afrin.
World Feb 28 No civilians exit Syria rebel-held region on day 2 of pause BEIRUT — No civilians exited the rebel-held Syria region near the capital Damascus on Wednesday, the second day of a Russia-ordered brief daily humanitarian pause amid reports of ground battles as government troops attempted to push their way into the…