Turkey has been battling wildfires since June 26; major factors are soaring temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity ...

Swathes of forested area and farmland have burnt, some villages evacuated as fires raged, including near the Turkish border.

Background: Norway imposed sanctions on Syria in 2011 in response to Assad’s crackdown on protesters that sparked the civil ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon terminating the United States' sanctions program on ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

Syria's Latakia faces historic wildfires - 100km² burned, 5,000+ displaced. "Nothing left but ash" as flames destroy villages. Civil Defense battles fires amid landmines & drought. EU aid requested as ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus marking the restoration of relations between the two countries after years of tension.

Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

Leaders in Ireland's humanitarian sector have said that millions of lives are at risk after Western countries drastically cut ...

Washington first imposed sanctions on Syria in 1979, when the US State Department placed Damascus on its list of state ...