Middle East
US blacklists 271 Syrian chemists, other experts over sarin attack
The US government put 271 Syrian chemists and other officials on its financial blacklist Monday, punishing them for their role in the ...Hundreds more join Mosul exodus as Iraqi forces retake two more western districts
Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more ...Thousands evacuated after deadly Syria bombing
Thousands of Syrians were evacuated from besieged towns on Wednesday with tight security in place after a weekend bombing against those leaving ...12 Saudi officers killed in helicopter crash in Yemen
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen said one of its helicopters crashed in eastern Yemen on Tuesday, killing 12 Saudi officers ...Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launch hunger strike
Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike Monday following a call from leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a ...Mass evacuation in Syria to proceed after blast kill 68 kids
More than 3,000 Syrians were expected to be evacuated Sunday from four areas as part of a population transfer that was briefly ...Syria car bombing kills at least 16 evacuees
A suicide car bombing killed at least 16 people Saturday in an attack near buses for Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held ...Warplanes strike Syrian town hit by chemical attack
Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned ...Fresh Gaza protests after Palestinian pay cut
Fresh protests against civil service pay cuts broke out in Gaza on Saturday, as pressure builds on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to ...US launches missile strike on Syria airbase
US forces fired a barrage of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase Friday in response to what President Donald Trump called a ...




