(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the Syrian Air Force formed commission of Inquiry to investigae the downing of the downed Russian Ilyushin-20 with 15 troops on board was shot down by a Syrian air defense missile on September 17. M. General Ahmed Balloul, head of the...

 The intensity of a Russia-backed assault on a former rebel stronghold in Syria using suspected chemical weapons and cluster bombs has been laid bare in a new report. The population of eastern Ghouta, an area on the outskirts of Damascus, endured years under a siege enforced by the...

A German court said Tuesday it could not enforce a Chilean prison sentence for a German former member of a Nazi paedophile sect for complicity in child sex abuse. It ruled that Hartmut Hopp, 74, could not be jailed because the evidence the Chilean court had provided against him fell...

Pope Francis on Tuesday admitted the clerical sex abuse scandals have put off some young people who believe the Catholic Church has not expressed enough condemnation. "We know -- and you have told us -- that many young people do not turn to us for anything because they don't feel we...