Basam Samad The 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) is scheduled to kick off in the southern German city of Munich on Friday and run through Sunday. The annual conference is taking place i... Read more

The US-led coalition fighting ISIS said its troops opened fire on Wednesday at a checkpoint in northeast Syria after they came under small arms fire. In a statement the coalition said the si... Read more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, at the State Department on Wednesday. This is the second time in... Read more

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned the Senate against adopting a resolution that would curb his ability to wage war against Iran, saying it would send “a very bad signal” and allo... Read more

Members of the UN Security Council have passed and adopted a resolution calling for a “lasting ceasefire” in Libya during a vote on Wednesday. The text, drafted by Britain, was approved by 1... Read more

The Turkish lira dropped about 0.6 percent against the dollar on Tuesday, amid investors’ growing concerned over the escalation of violence between the Syrian regime and Turkish forces... Read more

Iran marked the anniversary of the Islamic revolution with speeches and marches on Tuesday. February 11 marks the 41st anniversary of the 1979 revolution which led the current regime to powe... Read more

Syrian regime forces take control of the entire length of Aleppo-Damascus highway for first time since 2012, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The regime, backed by Russi... Read more

Israeli forces attacked Hamas positions from the air early Monday, the army said, after militants in the Palestinian enclave fired a projectile at southern Israel. The “aircraft and fighter... Read more

Two police officers were attacked by a passer-by at about 8:30 p.m. on 8 February while they were sitting in a locked police van with emergency lights activated, injuring one of the law enfo... Read more

The number of deaths from China’s new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 811 on Sunday after the hard-hit Hubei province reported 81 new fatalities. The toll is now higher than the global number... Read more

The Russian-backed Syrian regime said on Saturday it has captured the key crossroads city of Saraqib in the Idlib region, after a weeks-long offensive against the country’s last opposition b... Read more

Turkey has no plans to withdraw troops from observation posts in Syria’s northwest Idlib region even though three of the posts are in areas now controlled by the Syrian government, a T... Read more

US President Donald Trump described the impeachment trial against him as a disgrace and that it should “never ever happen to another president.” Speaking from the White House’s East Room, Tr... Read more

China’s anti-graft watchdog announced Friday an investigation after the death of a whistleblowing doctor sparked anger over the government’s handling of the coronavirus emergency. The discip... Read more