France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity over chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source and plaintiffs in the case said Wednesday. The judicial source told AFP  Assad  was also...

CAIRO (AP) — The warnings were clear but went unheeded. Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya. They repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures, located just uphill from...

Anti-regime protesters scattered on Wednesday after their demonstration near a Syrian government building in the southern city of Sweida was hit by a spray of bullets, activists and local journalists said. Sweida has been rocked by weeks of rallies against the Syrian government, first...

Palestinian activists in the city of Azaz, in northern Syria, have launched a campaign to uncover the fate of Palestinian detainees in Syrian prisons and to demand their release. The campaign’s media coordinator, Maher Shawish, said the campaign will continue until it achieves its goals....