PARIS (AP) — The Paris appeals court ruled on Wednesday that an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad issued by France for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war is valid and remains in place. Jeanne Sulzer and Clemence Witt, lawyers who...

A document  revealed  by Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday that the  Syrian  regime had instructed regime forces to institute a full siege on  al-Rukban  refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border on 1 April. The over two-months long siege has blocked almost all food,...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in Mecca converged on a vast tent camp in the desert on Friday, officially opening  the annual Hajj pilgrimage . Ahead of their trip, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site....

DUBAI (AP) — Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear program, the United Nations' atomic watchdog said Friday. The U.S. called the moves “nuclear escalations.” Spinning up new...