The Russian military says nearly 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned home to their country in recent months. Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev of the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters Friday that nearly 6,000 people returned to Syria in the last week alone, according to data collected by...

An Indonesian air liner has crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 people on board. Fears for passengers and crew aboard the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet were growing as search-and-rescue workers attempted to sift through wreckage in waters up to 35m deep....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An Austrian court filed a lawsuit against a former general in the Syrian Intelligence who took refuge in Austria in June 2015, over his involvement in torture and abuses against his detainees in eastern raqqa province. Due to numerous criminalization evidence...

Turkish investigators searched the Saudi consulate in Istanbul overnight as part of a probe into Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance, while U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not want to abandon his Saudi ally over the missing journalist. The crime scene team left the Saudi consulate...