Germany and France promised Thursday to pay hundreds of millions of euros to the World Health Organization, which faces a US withdrawal over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The two European nations said their increased support was not aimed at filling funding holes left by the US...

A Turkish air strike on Iraqi Kurdistan killed one person and wounded six others Thursday, a local official said, as Ankara pushed an assault on the north of the country. On June 17, Turkey launched a cross-border ground and air operation, dubbed "Claw-Tiger," against Kurdish rebels hiding...

A total of 14,388 people tortured to death in Syrian civil war since March 2011 were mostly by the Bashar al-Assad regime, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). Ahead of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, SNHR, which documents violations of civil...

Syria’s Bashar Assad has been counted out before. There were times during his country’s civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and pushed more than 12 million more from their homes, when it seemed the only way forward for all the major parties involved would be for...