Democratic Union Party (PYD)  declared an autonomous provincial government in the country’s northern territory on Tuesday, according to reports. The move comes ahead of the Geneva 2 peace talks, where they will not have direct representation. A municipal council will...

     The horrific new report accusing Syria's embattled regime of   torturing and killing thousands of detainees   in government custody may not be a game-changer for the   peace talks   set to open in Switzerland on Wednesday,...

  A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the lawyers on the team say in a new report. Their report, based on...

A car bomb ripped through a Shiite neighborhood in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least two people and setting plumes of smoke over the area in the latest attack targeting supporters of the militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon. A series of attacks have hit Lebanon recently as...