Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

The first convictions on crimes relating to the Syrian civil war were handed down in 2021 by another regional German court on the basis of universal jurisdiction. During the 14-year rule of Bashir ...

A Syrian man takes pictures with his mobile phone of Iranian missiles on their way toward Israel, as they pass over Damascus airspace, Syria, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) By ...

Dorothy Shea, the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Tuesday that the Syrian government, as a first order of business, ought to “begin discussions with Israel on a non ...

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor, referred to as Alaa M., to life imprisonment for committing war crimes and torture in Syria between 2011 and 2012. The court acknowledged the particular ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between ...

A Syrian doctor, center, accused of torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland, stands next to his lawyer Oussama Al-Agi, right, in the Higher Regional Court before the verdict is announced in ...

Israel's conflict with Iran is pushing its war in Gaza to the periphery. But Palestinians there are still being killed and are under a near-total blockade.

Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week's news. Outside the studio, she has also hosted ...