The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

After Assad fled to Russia, Abu Tarek and other internally displaced people suddenly had new freedom to move about the ...

Syria was once among the closest allies of the Islamic republic, but the new government resents Tehran’s support for the ...

An upcoming BBC podcast about the reporter's disappearance in August 2012 has unearthed new details of his case - some of which his family has dismissed.

The U.S. government is investigating claims by a former senior Syrian official that Marine veteran and freelance journalist ...

The general, Bassam Hassan, is said to have shared grim news about the fate of Austin Tice, an American journalist and former ...

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor, Alaa M., to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed in Syria. The case ...

Assad, many Syrians fear they have merely exchanged one autocrat for another. Confronted with a battered economy and sectarian opposition to his rule, President Ahmed al-Sharaa governs a fractured ...

The Israeli army says two rockets have been fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.