The anniversary comes as Christians worry about the future of Syria following the ouster of longtime president Bashar Assad in December by insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group.

It is the first public acknowledgement of internal oil deliveries from Syria's oil-rich north-east to the Islamist-run government. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A Kurdish candidate running in Germany’s federal elections criticized the country’s anti-immigration policies and failures to integrate newcomers, and urged continued migration to address labor ...

The Trump administration’s decision to freeze most US foreign aid risks fuelling an ISIS resurgence, according to authorities ...

Iran executed at least 975 people in 2024, marking a 17 percent increase from 2023, according to the seventeenth Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran released on Thursday. Jointly published by ...

The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or ...

An advisor for Yazidi affairs to the Kurdistan Region Presidency on Saturday criticized authorities at Syria’s al-Hol Camp ...

It was a mournful moment for Christians in Syria. A bell that once summoned residents to worship rang out, but the church was no longer there. The Saint Odisho church was blown up by the Islamic State ...