Syria

A bomb killed six people and wounded scores on Thursday when it exploded near the Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum in Damascus, Syria's most visited Shiite pilgrimage site, the authorities said. The deadly blast south of the capital came ahead of the annual commemoration of Ashura, when Shiites remember the death of…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian fighter jet fired flares and struck another U.S. drone over Syrian airspace on Wednesday, the White House said, in a continued string of harassing maneuvers that have ratcheted up tensions between the global powers. It’s the sixth reported incident this month, and the second in…

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The U.S. military has released footage showing a Russian fighter jet damaging an American drone in Syria after flying "dangerously close" to it. The Russian jet was "harassing" the drone and "deploying flares from a position directly overhead," the U.S. Air Forces Central said in a statement on Tuesday, leaving…

In this image from video released by the U.S. Air Force, a Russian fighter jet flies close to a U.S. drone over Syria, July 23, 2023. A Russian fighter jet flew within a few meters of a U.S. drone over Syria and fired flares at it, striking the American aircraft…

Since 2014, the UN has been operating in northwest Syria, providing people with life-saving humanitarian assistance and essential resources like shelter items, medicines, food, and water. Two weeks ago, Russia vetoed the nine-year-old UN mandate that allows for the distribution of support and resources to the 4.1 million people in…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Brigham researchers and international collaborators identified the association with younger age and advanced stage at diagnosis, coupled with the trauma associated with displacement, as likely contributors to the disparities. War and other conflicts impact health in ways that extend far beyond an active combat zone. In…

Author of the article: The Associated Press Edith M. Lederer Published Jul 24, 2023  •  3 minute read FILE - Trucks loaded with United Nations humanitarian aid for Syria following a devastating earthquake are parked at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, in Syria's Idlib province, on Feb. 10, 2023.…

Two Palestinians arrested, one teenager shot dead after Israeli settlers killed: army JERUSALEM: Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested two Palestinians suspected of shooting dead an Israeli settler near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, where violence has surged since early last year. Batsheva Nigri, 40, was killed on Monday in…