Residents of Idlib, Syria Friday praised the conviction of a former Syrian secret police officer by a German court. 58-year old Anwar Raslan, was the highest ranking Syrian official to be convicted for life, with the possibility of parole after 15 years, for crimes against humanity....

 To mask or not to mask is a question Italy settled early in the COVID-19 outbreak with a vigorous “yes." Now the onetime epicenter of the pandemic in Europe hopes even stricter mask rules will help it beat the latest infection surge. Other countries are taking similar action as the...

(Reuters) - Poland's foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet giving up on diplomacy but that military experts were preparing options in case tensions over Ukraine could not be defused. In Washington, the White House said...

A court in Germany began hearing a case Wednesday against a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity for torturing and killing inmates at a government-run prison and two military hospitals in his home country. Federal prosecutors say the doctor, identified as Alaa M. in keeping with...