Bashar al-Assad’s regime had executed one of its top chemical weapons scientists by firing squad in 2001, after he had been exposed as a US intelligence agent since 1988, The Times revealed on Monday. The newspaper reported that, “Known to the CIA as ‘the chemist’, the...

A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's secret police was convicted Wednesday by a German court of facilitating the torture of prisoners in a landmark ruling that human rights activists hope will set a precedent for other cases in the decade-long conflict. Eyad Al-Gharib was...

The trial of seven people accused of involvement in the smuggling of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan has resumed in Turkey. The fourth hearing got underway on Wednesday in Istanbul. In the previous hearing, Turkish prosecutors sought the maximum possible 12 years in...

China is moving ahead with two more COVID-19 vaccines in the regulatory process, one from state-owned company Sinopharm and another from a private company CanSino. Both vaccines have submitted been to regulators for approval this week. CanSino said that Chinese regulators are reviewing...