Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to ...

The new Ashgabat is all about grand buildings, wide avenues, parks, and gardens, which appear eerily devoid of human presence. The city is divided into two contrasting realms – the old town, a ...

Some residents of Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, say they have resorted to digging through refuse to look for food and other items as a devastating economic crisis tightens its grip on the ...

A Syrian source told Reuters that the initial search was focused on finding the remains of Kassig, who was beheaded in 2014 in northern Syria. "We are grateful to all those who are involved in the ...

While the Ashgabat police certainly got into an hours-long gunfight, and while somewhere between ten and twenty policemen might have died, they were fighting criminals, not terrorists. Such news ...

DWEIL’A, Syria — A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 20 and wounding 52 ...

This effort accelerated in 2010, when Ashgabat was picked to host the Asian Indoor Games of 2017. The government commissioned grandiose new monuments, renovated the city’s main stadium and built ...

Turkish officials at that time seemed confident that a commercial agreement would follow swiftly. Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced in a TV interview July 26 that he would fly to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a visit to Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, on Wednesday, the Kremlin said.