New Year celebrations in South Korea have been cancelled or scaled back following Sunday's plane crash at Muan International Airport. The country entered a seven-day period of mourning after 179 ...

The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of Bashar Assad’s ...

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The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the ...

Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The attack set off sirens ...

The following is a listing of all home transfers in Clackamas County reported from Dec. 23 to Dec. 29. There were 99 ...

Syria was once home to one of the world's largest Jewish communities. Those numbers have shrunk dramatically, especially ...

Syria’s de facto leader has said it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans on dissolving ...

When Syria's dictatorship fell, celebrations broke out around the world, including in Ohio, where Mohammed al-Refai, a ...

Syria's embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services Saturday, a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar ...

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.