KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine announced a high-profile prisoner swap early Thursday that was the culmination of months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in Mariupol during a long Russian siege. In exchange, Ukraine gave up a prominent ally of Russian...

 ,   A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria's Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life. Before Syria's conflict broke out, the country's roughly two million Kurds were not...

Security services for the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad have arrested a family which returned from Turkey to the city of Homs, in yet another case of betrayal of the promise of reconciliation for those who return to the war-torn country. According to the Syrian opposition news outlet,...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim on Tuesday criticised the global failure to hold “war criminals” in Syria accountable for their crimes. At the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, he said: "The international community wasn't able to hold war criminals in Syria accountable....