The January US drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a UN human rights investigator said Monday. The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack...

The Israeli spy Eli Cohen was not the only agent who succeeded in penetrating Syria’s regime in 1960s. Repeatedly, Mossad operations were able to infiltrate high-profile branches of the regime including the ministry of defense and important military units and security systems, which were...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the summer of 2018, Ahmad al-Hourani, 40, a former opposition fighter,  signed with his brother Salam (then 26), the so-called reconciliation agreement with the Syrian regime in southern Daraa province.  Ahmed, who used a pseudonym in fear of...

Five Yay Ma Hsay -- or 'unwashed' as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known -- arrived early Thursday at the pit to scrape out a living on a scraggy hillside, lured by the prospect of finding a stone that could transform their lives. But only three would return, the others victims of...