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.

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 ...

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 ...

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces, the precursor of Russia's invasion in 2022.