Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Easter has visited the ancient Christian town of Maaloula, which the army troops recently recaptured from militants, state television says.
President Vladimir Putin has said Russia sees no reason why its relationship with the West can’t normalize, amid growing tension between the opposing camps over the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine.
Four people have been reported killed in a gun battle in restive eastern Ukraine, shattering a fragile Easter truce in the crisis-hit former Soviet republic.
The Israeli regime’s troops have fired gunshots at farmers in south Lebanon, with no causalities or injuries reported.
Residents of al-Qalamoun region in Syria's Damascus countryside have started returning to the mountainous region, which has been cleared of foreign-backed militants by the army.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry has slammed Israel for preventing UN and European diplomats from passing through a barricade to attend a pre-Easter ritual in a church in al-Quds (Jerusalem).
A car explosion in Bahrain has killed two people and wounded a third in a village, the interior ministry says.
Dozens of Saudi militants fighting in Syria have surrendered themselves to the Saudi embassy in Lebanon in order to be sent back home, Arab media report.
The United Nations has warned that more than 20,000 civilians are in imminent danger of starving to death in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.
US military’s elite Special Forces have been committing suicide at record levels for the past two years, said a senior American commander who blamed the growing problem to the length and difficulty of their combat missions.