Dutch Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber rejected a plan proposed by members of parliament to allow Syrian refugees in the Netherlands to temporarily return to their homeland without losing their refugee status. The country's lower house of parliament had voted on the temporary measure to give...

Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria, rejected the "constitutional declaration" issued by the new Syrian administration on Tuesday, considering it "a dictatorial declaration that grants absolute powers to one person and establishes a new authoritarian...

Deadly Israeli strikes on Gaza drew condemnation from Arab nations and the international community, who urged Israel to halt hostilities and salvage a ceasefire deal. Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza, killing at least 326 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday. The...

Some, if I may say so, denounce the leaked remarks made by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Sheibani before European ministers, in which he is quoted as saying: "54 years of minority rule have led to the displacement of 15 million Syrians, the deaths of a million martyrs, and the oppression of...