But its involvement risks deepening sectarian tensions. Israeli troops have seized parts of southern Syria, violating a 1974 ...

The UN refugee agency in Lebanon hopes that 200,000 Syrian refugees will return to Syria by the end of the year under a new ...

Sweida remains scarred by a week of sectarian bloodshed that left more than 1,200 dead. Survivors on both sides recount ...

The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are growing in Syria, which both groups view as a “a strategic base ...

The French Cour de Cassation, on Friday, annulled an arrest warrant against the former president of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, holding that sitting foreign leaders are immune from prosecution. On the ...

France’s highest court has upheld some of Bashar Assad’s immunity as a former head of state. But it allowed for potential future war crime warrants against him.

France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state while ...

France’s highest court has upheld some of Bashar Assad’s immunity as a former head of state. But it allowed for potential future war crime warrants against him. The Cour de Cassation ruled ...

France's highest court has upheld some of Bashar Assad's immunity as a former head of state.

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state while green-lighting possible future war crime warrants ...