Lawyers representing victims in Syria encouraged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to 'urgently' issue arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and 17 senior officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a statement Thursday after meeting Syrian authorities, Gulden Sonmez and Cihat...

The Dutch Ministry of Asylum and Migration has announced its intention to forcibly return Syrian refugees in the long term, RTL Nieuws reported. The Netherlands is seeking to follow in the footsteps of other countries such as Germany and Austria, which have announced a reassessment of the...

Military operations continued in northern Syria on Friday, with a noticeable escalation between Turkish forces and allied Syrian factions, on the one hand, and the US-backed  Kurdish militias, which led to deaths of dozens over the week. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that Turkish...

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that the number of Syrians who have returned to their country since the fall of the Baath regime on December 8 has reached 52,622 people. This came in a statement made by Yerlikaya to journalists during his presence on Thursday at the...