Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria are in talks with their military allies in a US-led coalition over a promised exemption from US sanctions targeting the Syrian government, a senior Kurdish official said. Washington says the sanctions, which took effect last week, mark the start...

Federal prosecutors have arrested a Syrian doctor working in Germany for crimes against humanity. He is suspected of beating an epileptic prisoner while working for the Syrian military intelligence agency. German federal prosecutors arrested a Syrian doctor for suspected crimes against...

Ten French children are being repatriated to France from refugee camps in northeast Syria, the French foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. The ministry added that the children had been handed over to French authorities. “France today proceeded with the return of 10 young...

Some 25,000 people, mostly women and children, have died in the Mediterranean Sea over the last eight years, the Turkish president said on Sunday. “In the past eight years, 25,000 people, most of them women and children, died in the treacherous waters of Mediterranean,” Recep Tayyip...