US President Donald Trump abruptly backed down Wednesday in his global trade war with a 90 day pause for most countries – but slapped even more levies against China in what has become a full-scale confrontation between the world’s two largest economies. “I have authorized a 90 day...

A list of dozens of militias established by the former Syrian regime during the years of the revolution to suppress the popular movement and fight alongside it. Documented by the "Black List Book," it includes the names of the militias, their number of members, their areas of deployment,...

In 2013, while working on a farm cutting firewood, Hussein Abdo Qarajah, a native of the village of Al-Matras in the Safita countryside, was arrested by a group of shabiha led by Basil Breidi, with the participation of pro-Assad militants from Ain al-Sahen and neighboring villages. Hussein...

A Palestinian journalist died Tuesday of severe burns he sustained in an Israeli strike on a tent for journalists in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis a day earlier, local media said. Footage showed Ahmed Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today news agency, burning alive after the strike...