At least 13,278 civilians in Syria were killed and 18,600 were arrested by the Bashar al-Assad regime over the past four years, according to a report by a London-based rights watchdog. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said on Friday that it presented its report to the UN Human...

The Kremlin said Wednesday it doesn't want the illness of Russia's opposition leader, who is in a coma in a German hospital after a suspected poisoning, to affect relations with the West as international pressure mounted on Moscow to investigate Alexei Navalny's condition. The statement...

The Tour de France rolls out of the French Riviera next Saturday with peaks, plains and rigid coronavirus protocols standing between the 176 riders and the final dash along the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Delayed by over two months because of the virus, political will and organisational savvy...

The 10 firefighters who received the call a bit before 6 p.m. - alerting them of a big fire at the nearby port of Beirut - could not know what awaited them. The brigade of nine men and one woman could not know about the stockpile of ammonium nitrate warehoused since 2013 along a busy...