In a cell where light barely seeps in, Mahmoud, along with “Islamist prisoners” in Building B of Roumieh Prison, made a decision the harsh consequences of which they fully understood in advance: ...

People flocked to the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to say goodbye to the last two giant pandas in Japan. Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei will ...

Lebanese inmates begin a hunger strike, demanding equal treatment as Syrian detainees face imminent extradition.

Israeli strikes continue in southern and eastern Lebanon despite a ceasefire. The ceasefire in Gaza is broadly holding, despite sporadic clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza militants -- ...

Syria’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the government’s prisons authority is now in charge of al-Aqtan prison, ...

Syria's government took over a prison in the north on Friday after the negotiated exit of Kurdish fighters from the facility ...

The Syrian interior ministry says it has taken over al-Aktan prison in the city of Raqqa in northeast Syria, a facility that was formerly under the control of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ...

Lebanon CYS and law enforcement describe the living conditions of the three-month-old infant as "deplorable," with extensive ...

Jaime Gomez, 18, has been receiving treatment for a gunshot wound at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. He was returned to Vermont Wednesday.

The U.S. military said it had transferred 150 Islamic State detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraq and could eventually ...

The Syrian military claims guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces abandoned a camp in northeast Syria, allowing ...

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on charges that included the obstruction of investigators' attempt to detain him last year.