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.

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 ...

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 ...

It comes after Ukraine said it was behind a drone strike on a Russian oil base in the region. Submit your questions for our correspondents in the box below.

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official ...