The refugee crisis unleashed by the Syrian conflict has pushed the number of asylum seekers globally to a post-war record high, lifting overall migration flows, the OECD said on Monday. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's 35 member states saw the number asylum seekers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime's president Bashar al-Assad issued decree on Sunday exempting chief of Terrorism Court Rida Musa and 5 more judges from their work in the Rirst and Second Terrorism Courts. The decree assigns Judge Ghazi Badir al-Salah as the new chief of the first terrorism...

Two 20-truck aid convoys destined for eastern Aleppo with enough supplies to feed 185,000 people for a month are still stuck in Turkey, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday, hours after a ceasefire in Syria expired. The U.N. has said it does not have sufficient security guarantees from all sides...

U.N. war crimes investigators on Monday called on European countries to let them interview more newly-arrived Syrian refugees to document fresh violations, saying it had become increasingly difficult. The panel, set up five years ago, says it has compiled a confidential list of suspects on...