BEIRUT: More than 360,000 people have been killed across war-ravaged Syria in seven years, a monitoring group said Thursday, in a new toll for the brutal conflict.It came amid rising international concern that a

For the first time ever, the European Parliament has voted to sanction a member state. Hungary is accused of flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption, with government attacks on the courts

Antakya, Turkey - Turkey continued to deploy troops and heavy weaponry to its southwestern border with Syria in anticipation of a major offensive by the Syrian government and its allies on opposition-held territory. A

France acknowledged for the first time it was responsible for systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence in the mid-1950s.  President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Maurice Audin, a communist pro-independence activist who disappeared

Riyadh-based carrier Flynas has announced plans to recruit Saudi women to work as co-pilots and flight attendants for the first time. Women are not legally barred from working in the aviation sector, but jobs

Japan is proposing an end to a 33-year-old ban on commercial whaling, saying it is time because most whale species have rebounded from being endangered at the time the ban began. It is facing

GENEVA: UN officials have notified Russia, Turkey and the US of the GPS coordinates of 235 schools, hospitals and other civilian sites in the Syrian province of Idlib, in the hope the move will

Rival Iraqi factions make coalition deal and end Al-Abadi’s prime minister hopes BAGHDAD: Pro-Iran parties in Iraq reached a deal on Thursday to join a parliamentary coalition overseen by anti-Tehran cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr that

BEIJING: Any chemical weapons attack on Syria’s last opposition stronghold would lead to “consequences” for the regime in Damascus, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned in Beijing on Thursday. Russia-backed regime forces have

This interview took place on September 10 at Basmanny Court in Moscow and September 11 at a cafe nearby the courthouse. Verzilov fell ill late on September 11. Pussy Riot believes Verzilov was poisoned.