Dutch Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber rejected a plan proposed by members of parliament to allow Syrian refugees in the Netherlands to temporarily return to their homeland without losing their refugee status. The country's lower house of parliament had voted on the temporary measure to give...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained a video documenting the practices of the former Assad regime. Detainees are transported between security branches in a deliberately humiliating manner: blindfolded and handcuffed detainees are crammed into a truck with barely any air. The beating of jailers' batons can be...

Some, if I may say so, denounce the leaked remarks made by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Sheibani before European ministers, in which he is quoted as saying: "54 years of minority rule have led to the displacement of 15 million Syrians, the deaths of a million martyrs, and the oppression of...

Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza, killing 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, and threatening a complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as it vowed to use force to free its remaining hostages in the strip. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had...