ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities continued to search Saturday for victims and survivors of a trawler that sank off the coast of Greece with as many as 750 migrants on board, as conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis blasted critics of the rescue operation. Naysayers, Mitsotakis said at a...
Tahrir al-Sham's security apparatus arrested on Friday a member of the Free Lawyers Syndicate in northwest Syria amid calls for his immediate release, the opposition's group stated on Saturday. The Free Lawyers Syndicate said in a statement that members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the...
At least three civilians were injured Saturday in a rocket attack by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on a displaced camp in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo province, one of the strongholds of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl...
This much is clear: On June 9, an old steel fishing trawler left eastern Libya for Italy, carrying far too many people. As many as 750 men, women and children from Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian territories and Pakistan were on board, fleeing hopelessness in their home countries and trying to...