AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years,  Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict , the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of  President Bashar Assad , various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces. But as the conflict...

MILAN (AP) — Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday. The European...

The Israeli army has admitted to mistakenly targeting two Palestinians who were riding a bicycle in the Gaza Strip. The army published a video in which it initially said two gunmen were targeted in a drone strike in Gaza City last week for allegedly carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG)....

The office of  Switzerland 's Attorney General (OAG) said it was charging the former Syrian vice president and former Syrian army officer with a long list of crimes committed in February 1982, during a notorious clash between the Syrian military and Islamist opposition in the town of Hama...