.( Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Catherine Evans)....

.( Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Editing by Angus MacSwan)....

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi4 Min ReadAMMAN( Reuters)-Russian military police on Wednesday began

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi6 Min ReadAMMAN( Reuters)-King Abdullah has moved swiftly to shore up his

( Reuters)-Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates'de facto ruler, discussed developments in Syria and the Middle East with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, Emirates News Agency( WAM) reported. Washington's main regional allies have stepped up economic and diplomatic ties with Assad, shunned after a bloody crackdown over a decade ago on peaceful protests against his rule that spiralled into a multi-sided war that killed hundreds of th

AMMAN( Reuters)-A car bomb in the rebel-held city of Azaz in northwest Syria killed one civilian on Thursday and wounded several bystanders, witnesses said, in the first act of its kind this year.A rescue worker said an improvised explosive device in a vehicle had been planted near a local transport office in the city, which lies near the Turkish border.... The city has been the site of several bombings in recent years.... Turkish-backed Arab rebels in Azaz and other parts of the enclave have

The channel reported at least 14 people were killed and three wounded.... Helped by a Russian military presence and Iranian Shi’ite militias, Assad now controls most of the country.... Northwestern Syria is the last major stronghold of rebels fighting Assad....

( To correct that first vessel had already sailed) BEIRUT( Reuters)-The leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday that vessels carrying Iranian fuel will be setting sail soon followed by others to ease fuel shortages in Lebanon. Nasrallah insisted that the group was not trying to step in and replace the state by purchasing the fuel.... The first vessel which last Thursday the group announced was about to leave Iran, had already sailed, he said." We are not t

AMMAN( Reuters)-Russian jets bombed areas near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Sunday, witnesses and rebel sources said, marking a new year flare-up for the last opposition-held bastion. War planes flying at high altitude, which tracking centres said were Russian Sukhoi jets, dropped bombs on several towns and a water pumping station serving the overcrowded city of Idlib, whose wider population is more than a million.No immediate comment was available from Russia or the Syrian army, whi

AMMAN( Reuters)-Archaeologists have discovered a 7, 000-year-old stone age site in a remote desert in Jordan, with structures which show humans were rounding up and hunting gazelles much earlier than previously thought.... The team of French and Jordanian experts also found over 250 artifacts at the site, including exquisite animal figurines which they believe were used in rituals to invoke supernatural forces for successful hunts. The objects, which include two stone statues with carvings of h