Syrian President Bashar Assad has replaced some heads of influential security agencies, including Maj. Gen. Jamil Hassan, who has headed the powerful Air Force Intelligence Directorate since 2009, pro-government Syrian pages on social media reported Sunday. No reason was given for the...

An Algerian senator close to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been jailed on accusations of corruption. State television announced that a Supreme Court judge ordered Djamel Ould Abbas incarcerated in Algiers Sunday after several hours of questioning for alleged wrongdoing when he...

Dima al-Kanj’s house is now a pile of rubble and twisted metal. It was just a concrete hut near the Lebanese border, but she had spent five years trying to make it cozy for her children after fleeing the war in Syria. Then, under army orders, she had to smash it. “Every year, we...

At least 130 children were among the 544 people killed in a Russian-led assault on the last rebel-held area of northwestern Syria over the last two months, according to an independent monitoring group. Aided by Russian air power, the Syrian army launched an offensive on the rebel-held Idlib...