BEIRUT —Following an accusation by the local newspaper Al Akhbar on Friday that “an officer and agents of the State Security Service tortured a Syrian detainee during interrogation and beat him to death,” several judicial sources confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour that a lieutenant was taken...

NEW YORK (AP) — Leave it to Serena Williams to not want to go quietly, to not want this match, this trip to the U.S. Open, this transcendent career of hers, to really, truly end. Right down to what were, barring a change of heart, the final minutes of her quarter-century of excellence on...

BERLIN (AP) — Europe’s energy crisis loomed larger Friday after Russian energy giant Gazprom said it couldn't resume the supply of natural gas through a major pipeline to Germany for now. The company cited what it said was a need for urgent maintenance work to repair key components — in an...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its monthly report released on Thursday that 91 civilians were killed in Syria in August 2022, including 28 children, two women, and seven individuals who died as a result of torture, noting that the Syrian regime continues to...