Many Syrians forced from their homes by their country's brutal, decade-old war are now shocked to discover that their family farms have been taken over by regime loyalists and cronies. Rights groups and legal experts say local authorities in parts of northwest Syria recaptured by government...

The UK and European Union will Wednesday sign a mammoth trade pact to put the seal on their drawn-out Brexit divorce in the dwindling hours before they part ways definitively at the dawning of 2021. EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will ink the 1,246-page Trade and...

Hatem Ali, an award-winning Syrian actor and director, died on Tuesday from a heart attack in a Cairo hotel, his family said. Born in 1962 in Syria's Golan Heights, which was occupied by Israel in 1967, Ali graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 1986, before...

Legendary French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died Tuesday at the age of 98 at a hospital in Neuilly in western Paris, his family told AFP. Cardin was born in Italy in 1922 but emigrated to France as a small child.  Cutting his teeth working at top couture houses such as...