TOKYO (AP) — Japan protested to Russia on Tuesday over the detention of a Japanese consulate official on espionage allegations, denying the allegations and accusing Russian authorities of abusive interrogation. The official was detained on Sept. 22 and interrogated with his eyes covered,...

Sunday marks nine years since the Ghouta massacre, in which the Syrian regime used Sarin gas in the suburbs of Damascus, killing over 1,000 civilians in the first major chemical incident of the Syrian civil war.  In the early hours of the morning on 21 August 2013, at least 12 rockets...

Opposition figures in northwestern Syria have expressed their rejection of the regime’s participation in the upcoming Arab League summit set for Algeria in November. They criticized Algiers’ insistence on inviting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in spite of its war machine and its...

BEIRUT (AP) — It’s been two years since his 3-year-old daughter, Alexandra, was killed in a massive explosion at Beirut’s port — and Paul Naggear has lost hope that outrage over the disaster will bring justice and force change in Lebanon. The investigation into one of the world's...