which Hadrian renamed Syria Palestina. “The papyrus reflects the suspicion with which the Roman authorities viewed their Jewish subjects,” said Anna Dolganov, a historian of the Roman Empire ...

The Syrian Interior Ministry announced the seizure of nearly 4 million Captagon pills in the coastal province of Latakia ... Bashar Assad, Syria’s leader for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia ...

Turkey and Israel are working to defuse military tensions in Syria, easing the risk of conflict between two important U.S. allies that have suffered a strain in relations since the war in Gaza ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister said Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks that could further ...

Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Sunday that a US strike in Sanaa province had killed five people and wounded more than a dozen others. "The death toll from the US aggression on the Al-Sawari factory ...

The state-run Emirates News Agency, or WAM, reported that the UAE's president, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, met with Sharaa in Abu Dhabi and “wished him success in leading Syria through ...

A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users -- the West Philippine Sea. The Philippine government's preferred ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from WNW to W at 10 to 16 mph (16.1 to 25.7 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C). Sunny with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C). Winds from W to WNW at 9 to 14 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from abortion rights ...