The European Union’s (EU) general court has rejected an appeal by a prominent Syrian businessman and chair of the airliner, Cham Wings, to have the company removed from the bloc’s sanctions list, months after it was re-added on to the blacklist. Since January this year, the EU added...

MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard on Thursday recovered 12 more bodies from a  weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea  off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies, including...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish judge on Thursday acquitted a former Syrian army general of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in his home country more than a decade ago, saying prosecutors failed to provide evidence of his involvement in the war crimes. Brig. Gen. Mohammed Hamo, who...

A document  revealed  by Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday that the  Syrian  regime had instructed regime forces to institute a full siege on  al-Rukban  refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border on 1 April. The over two-months long siege has blocked almost all food,...