Survivors of torture in Syrian prisons and families of those still detained or missing launched their first collective appeal to the international community on Wednesday. Their message is simple: stop torture in detention facilities immediately and reveal the fate of tens of thousands...

“As long as the script remains not shot by a camera, the drawer becomes its coffin,” with these words, twin Syrian directors Mohamed and Ahmed Malas explained, turning their original idea of a feature film to the short film “Syrians in Wonderland”, due to production conditions. ...

The US announcement that it will focus on fighting Daesh remnants in Syria rather than guarding oil fields in the region could force Turkey to rethink its strategy in the war-wracked country, analysts believe. In a break from the Trump-era policy, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday...

Friends, family members and diplomats on Thursday demanded “accountability” for the death of Lebanese publisher and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim. Slim, a 58-year-old political activist and commentator, was found dead with six bullets in his body last week on a deserted rural road in...