Hello from Free Syria. I’m in Damascus right now. It’s a beautiful winter. Everything is better than before,” Ayoub Alsmadi, founder of Syria Scope Travel, told CNN Travel.

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Region’s finance minister struck an optimistic tone after meeting with Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Friday to discuss budget amendments and salary ...

Before long they had seized the city and are now looking to push on in their fight against the government. Faith*, a 42-year-old aid worker hiding away from ... yet people are still staying inside for ...

An asteroid, estimated to be between 40 and 100 metres wide, has a very slim chance of hitting the Earth in about eight years time. NASA’s analysis of the newly identified asteroid, 2024 YR4, ...

In early 2020, Grissom worked on the marketing team for BarkBox and her husband, Sean Wilson, was an orthopedic surgeon in hospitals across New York City ... for "weird old houses" that might ...

Clustered around the city's port on the banks of the St. Lawrence River are the quaint stone buildings and narrow, winding streets of Old Québec. This historic neighborhood (and UNESCO World ...

The space sits in the old Parachute Regiment building that dates back to the 1940s. There's one only one toilet. Picture: Supplied In order to make the 1200 sqm space more aesthetically friendly ...

California (KCAL/KCBS) -- Newly released body camera footage shows the moments that two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies rescue a 100-year-old woman trapped inside of her elderly ...

A one-year-old toddler in Sagbayan, Bohol died after he drowned inside a pail of water, it was reported Wednesday. According to a report by Mark Salazar in State of the Nation, victim John Andrei ...

A father and his six-year-old daughter who were found dead inside their family home have today been pictured for this first time. Mark Gordon, 36, and his daughter Hope, six, were discovered ...