A court in Germany has found a 29-year-old Syrian man guilty of war crimes for torturing members of pro-government forces in Syria. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the Stuttgart regional court sentenced Mohamad K. to four years and six months in prison. K., whose...

Dozens of displaced families on Thursday left the Rukban camp in southeastern Syria and reached a crossing point in the Syrian Desert, state-run news agency SANA reported. The displaced Syrian families reached the Jlaighem crossing in the eastern countryside of Homs Province in central...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that documented chemical attacks in Syria have amounted to nearly 221 attacks since 23 December 2012, the date of the first recorded use of chemical weapons in the country, until 4 April. This came in a report released on Thursday on the...

Heavy bombardment by the Syrian army of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region has killed 22 civilians, a monitor said Thursday, the latest violence to theaten a seven-month-old truce. The ceasefire was brokered by the main foreign backers of the warring parties in September to head off a...