The Special Commissioner for Missing Persons at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bahia Mardini, affirmed that the trial of Atef Najib represents a historic step, as it is the first Syrian judicial decision to rely on international humanitarian law to prosecute perpetrators of torture and...

US Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that he believes that the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner  shooter  was targeting Trump administration officials. “It does appear that he did, in fact, have set out to target folks that work in the...

The first public trial in Syria of officials linked to the rule of former President Bashar al-Assad opened in Damascus Sunday. Atef Najib, a former Syrian army brigadier general who was head of the Political Security Branch in southern Syria’s Daraa province under al-Assad and who is also...

Israeli military attacks killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials in the enclave said. Medics said an airstrike carried out by Israel’s forces killed one person near the central village of Al-Mughraqa, while Israeli gunfire and tank shelling killed two...