Turkey banned Newroz gatherings in the 1990s, resulting in Kurds clashing with security forces. Clashes peaked during the ...

Myanmar declared a state of emergency. Buildings in Mandalay have toppled; fires have reportedly broken out; hospitals are overwhelmed.

With rescue operations and global aid efforts underway in Myanmar and Thailand, here's a look back at some of the worst ...

Some estimates predict more than 10,000 people died in the quake and that economic losses could exceed the gross domestic ...

Friday’s deadly quake in Myanmar has killed at least 1,002 with 2,376 injured, as per the country’s ruling military. The powerful earthquake was triggered by strike-slip faulting between the India and ...

More than 700 people have been killed and at least 1,670 injured, but the death toll could rise into the thousands as rescue ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities.

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

Syria's Foreign Ministry says an Israeli strike in a southwestern village has killed at least six people as Israeli troops ...

It's the third complaint against Israel filed at the U.N. Security Council by Syria's interim government ... number of dead ...

The death toll from a Saturday explosion in the coastal city of Latakia, northwestern Syria, rose to 16, the Syrian Civil Defense said on Sunday. The explosion occurred when ordnance exploded in a ...

The death toll from an explosion that occurred in a hardware store in Al-Raml Al-Janoubi in the Syrian city of Latakia has risen to 15 dead and 18 injured. The Syrian Civil Defense reported ...