France's top court on Thursday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges brought against cement giant Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria's civil war. The ruling by the Court of Cassation marks a major setback for Lafarge, which is accused of...

At least four people, including a child and a woman, were killed and fifteen more wounded in Syrian artillery attacks on the rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria, opposition activists said. The  Tuesday's night  shelling of the city of Idlib came after several airstrikes...

Swedish authorities arrested two women from Sweden suspected of committing war crimes in Syria, the prosecutors office and local media said Tuesday, the first such arrests in the Scandinavian country. According to a statement from the prosecutor's office , three women from the territories...

A precarious ceasefire held in the city of Deraa on Monday after negotiators for rebel forces and the Syrian government tried to close to a comprehensive peace agreement to end a three-month siege. The tense negotiations to finalise the deal came after new government demands to deploy nine...