The German SZ newspaper  reported Tuesday that the trial of two Syrians was held over an attempt to smuggle large quantities of Captagon (amphetamine) tablets from illegal drug laboratories abroad. The newspaper revealed that the defendants' defense demanded a prison term of six and a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's judiciary raised the death toll Monday in a blaze at Tehran's notorious Evin prison, saying that at least eight prisoners were killed as protests continue nationwide. Details still remain scarce over the fire at Evin prison, which broke out on...

AMASRA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey rose to at least 40 people Saturday, officials said. Desperate relatives had waited all night in the cold outside the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea...

From the beginning of this month to the end of next December, "Gallery Franks" for Arts in the city of Zoetermeer in the western Netherlands will host a plastic exhibition by the Syrian artist "Adnan Alloush".  The exhibition, entitled "Suffering", includes more than 50 works executed...