A Swedish court has placed a Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of committing war crimes in Syria in pre-trial detention. The court south of Stockholm jailed 33-year-old Mohammad Abdullah for two weeks Friday and said formal charges should be filed before Sept. 7. The case relates to crimes...

The chief of the Russian military's branch for protection from chemical weapons says his troops have dismantled two chemical weapons facilities in areas freed from militants in Syria. Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov didn't name the locations, saying only that Russia will provide the data to the...

Roughly 500 families have fled Iraq’s Daesh-held Tal Afar district to next-door Syria in recent days amid an ongoing Iraqi army campaign to capture the district, a local military official said Friday. “Since the army launched its campaign to liberate Tal Afar, around 500 families have...

A man suspected of involvement in a threat that triggered the cancellation of a concert by American rock band Allah-Las will remain in custody until next week, after an investigating judge ruled on Friday that his arrest was lawful. It remains to be seen exactly what, if any, charges the...