PARIS (AP) — The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials began Tuesday at a Paris court for the alleged  torture and killing of a French-Syrian father and son  who were arrested over a decade ago, during the height of Arab Spring-inspired anti-government protests....

KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — A Greek judge dismissed a case Tuesday against nine Egyptian men  accused of causing a shipwreck  that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union’s border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor argued that...

When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register. Laca, 45, came from Albania...

The Syrian regime’s security and intelligence services appointed a number of officers close to Russia in sensitive positions to be responsible for the Air Force Intelligence branches in Homs, Hama and the coastal region. An anonymous source from the monitoring and follow-up units of the...

Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a  sprawling camp in northeast Syria  Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders. The latest batch of people to leave al-Hol camp, which houses...

The Syrian Civil Defense Organization began restoring and rehabilitating more than 15 medical facilities, distributed among hospitals, primary health care centers, and women’s and family health centers, in Idlib and Aleppo. The rescue agency operating in northwestern Syria said in a report...

It appears that the war on Gaza has impacted Iran’s military deployment in Syria. Local sources said Tehran has started to put in place plans for the relocation of Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) headquarters from the Damascus countryside to regions close to the border with Lebanon after the...

DUBAI, May 7 (Reuters) - The United States repatriated 11 U.S. citizens, including 5 minors, in the largest single repatriation of U.S. citizens from northeast Syria to date, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on X on Tuesday, adding that the U.S. also facilitated the repatriation...

Syrian regime forces attacked a village in the country’s northwest on Sunday, killing a 12-year-old child and injuring a woman. Syrian troops stationed in the town of Kafr Halab in Aleppo province along with Iran-backed foreign terrorist groups attacked the village of al-Abzimo with rockets...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising as donors cut back on aid, the head of the U.N.'s migration agency warned Tuesday, as pressure builds over their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Amy Pope, director general of the...

For the fourth day in a row, the regime continues to send heavy military reinforcements to the southern Suwayda province, where anti-regime demonstrations have been continuing for months. Local sources reported on Monday that the Syrian regime transferred hundreds of soldiers and dozens of...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has  repatriated hundreds more of its citizens  linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday. Ali Jahangir, a spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced, said the nearly 700...

The Kurdish-led forces have killed two civilians in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province, according to local sources. The YPG-led fighters on Sunday opened fire at two civilians, Khaled al-Mizal and Dahham al-Mizal, in the Meghlujeh village of Hasakah. The US-backed group opened fire...

France has charged the ex-wife of a top Daesh official with crimes against humanity on suspicion of enslaving a teenage Yazidi girl in Syria, French media reported. A woman identified as Sonia M., the former wife of the jihadist group’s head of external operations Abdelnasser Benyoucef, was...

(Beirut) –  Lebanese  authorities have arbitrarily detained, tortured, and forcibly returned Syrians to Syria in recent months, including opposition activists and army defectors, Human Rights Watch said today. Between January and March 2024, Human Rights Watch documented the...

The war in Gaza continues to cast a dark shadow over the wider Middle East region, in particular Syria where a series of strikes and attacks are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation, the UN Special Envoy for the country said on Thursday. Briefing ambassadors on the Security...

Beirut (AFP) – Syria has avoided getting embroiled in the Gaza war, experts said, despite a strike on Iran's Damascus consulate, blamed on Israel, that threatened to ignite a regional conflagration. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to strike a delicate balancing...

A Turkish court has sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street. Six Turkish citizens, two members each of three families, were killed in the attack on November 13, 2022. The...

Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes blamed on Israel, a source close to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and a war monitor said Wednesday. Iran has provided military support to Syrian government forces through more than a decade of civil war but...

Several rockets have been fired from Iraq towards a US military base in northeastern Syria. The attack, launched from the town of Zummar late on Sunday, was the first since early February to target US troops, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq brought to an end a campaign that had seen...