MOSCOW - Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad ... after the fall of its ally Bashar al-Assad in December. Assad was toppled by rebels led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has replaced him as president.

Russia and Iran, both major backers of the Assad government, previously provided most of Syria's wheat and oil products but stopped after the rebels triumphed and he fled to Moscow. Syrian ...

Kremlin says no order to extend the ceasefire from Putin Zelenskiy says Russian activity picked up Sunday morning Russia says Ukraine broke ceasefire more than 1,000 times MOSCOW/KYIV, April 20 ...

"This is a big change," agrees Ali al-Atassi, a Syrian documentary-maker and son of former Syrian President Noureddine al-Atassi. (His father was deposed in a coup by Hafez al-Assad.) "It changed the ...

All across America, commencement speakers this spring are pondering what to write and how to address graduation audiences. Students have finished their high school careers. College students have ...

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Suleiman Khalil was harvesting olives in a Syrian orchard with two friends four months ago, unaware the soil beneath them still hid deadly remnants of war. The trio suddenly ...

MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine accused each other of thousands of attacks that violated the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, with the Kremlin saying there ...

REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATION But Mr. Putin, who sent thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and who ordered on Saturday the halt in all military activity along the front line ...

Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government last year, the number of land mine-related incidents has surged, particularly as displaced people return to former front-line areas. Contamination ...

While the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war came to an end with the fall of Bashar Assad on Dec. 8, war remnants continue to kill and maim. Contamination from land mines and explosive remnants has ...