VATICAN CITY (AP)-  The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis meets frequently with victims of sexual abuse, seeking to defuse a mounting scandal over his unbridled support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse. Spokesman Greg Burke said...

Rome, Italy - Six and a half years into the ongoing bloodshed in Syria, General Issam Zahreddine, infamous for overseeing the suffocating three-year siege of Deir Az Zor, was killed by a landmine. He died in October 2017, when his vehicle hit an explosive in Hawija Saqr during the...

A US-backed Kurdish-led force in Syria on Friday confirmed capturing British jihadist Alexanda Amon Kotey last month as he attempted to flee from Syria to Turkey. Redur Khalil, a spokesperson and senior official in the Syrian Democratic Forces, said his fighters had captured many wanted...

The wives and children of French extremists captured in Syria have filed a legal complaint against French authorities for refusing to repatriate them, their lawyers announced Wednesday. The question of what to do with some 40 captured extremists - men and women, accompanied by around 20...