The Bashar al-Assad regime  and opposition groups “mutually and simultaneously” release detainees as part of the Astana Process on Thursday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. “Several persons detained by the opposition groups and the regime were mutually and...

Bashar Assad issued a decree Wednesday giving hundreds of thousands of civil servants and military members a 30% salary increase amid a harsh economic and financial crisis and price increases for vital products.   Assad’s decision came as prices of main staples have been doubled like...

With more cases of the omicron coronavirus variant are being reported across Europe, countries are bracing for a new wave and weighing additional measures. “There is a tidal wave of omicron coming,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday warned, urging citizens to receive COVID-19...

PARIS — A Frenchwoman who joined the Islamic State and had been held in a detention camp in Syria since 2019 died of health complications on Tuesday — a first for a French national, according to her lawyer. The death was a stark reminder of the fate of the hundreds of European women...