Hundreds of people gathered in the winter cold on Thursday as Palestinian militant groups prepared to hand over to Israel the bodies of four hostages, including the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack. Palestinian militant groups said the bodies of the two...

A seminar on justice and accountability in the Syrian political transition was held in Paris on February 12, 2025, organized by a civil society organization, with the aim of preparing for the ministerial meeting organized by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 13. The seminar...

When former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was toppled in a surprise rebel offensive in early December, Faisal al-Turki Najjar was one of the first people to return to his home country. Merely two weeks after the government fell, Najjar had already packed his bags, ready to return to...

Documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl revealed that in 2020, the Syrian authorities found a two-year-old French toddler named Maria Abdullah Basira near a garbage container in the northeastern city of Raqqa, and she was then placed in an orphanage.  According to official documents issued...