At least three women were killed and five children injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian civil defence said.

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...

This year is starting as 2024 ended: in a tangle of overlapping conflicts.

Russia is openly using chemical weapons against Ukraine. Ukraine’s army support services say Russia has carried out 4,800 ...

The new Syrian authorities have refused to grant entry to a ship that was supposed to evacuate Russian military equipment ...

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Ukraine's army hit a supermarket in the Russian-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine this morning, a senior Russian-backed official has said. Denis Pushilin accused the Ukrainian army of using ...