Former member of Assad’s secret police is accused of facilitating the torture of prisoners in the first time a court outside Syria has ruled in a case on the government’s abuses against its own population
The jump in violence has heightened calls for countries to repatriate their citizens languishing in the al-Hol camp, home to some 62,000 people
Missiles were fired from Golan Heights and Galilee, Syrian army statement says, not mentioning casualties ■ Six Iran-backed fighters killed in strikes, Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says
Report gives no further information about cause of explosion or source or whether it left any casualties
Alaa, a Syrian national scarcely in Iraq one year, envisions a clandestine establishment that can serve as a refuge to evade the stigma of drinking alcohol in a conservative Muslim-majority society
George Haswani denied any wrongdoing after Reuters reported that his company shared an address with the company responsible for ordering the chemicals that led to August's deadly explosion
Spare parts were brought to warehouses days before extensive strikes attributed to Israel, Iranian Revolutionary Guards source tells Kuwaiti newspaper
Cause of fire and explosions not immediately clear, with Lebanon's LBC TV saying the warehouse was used by smugglers
The deployment comes amid upcoming talks between Russia and Turkey and clashes this month between Turkish-backed fighters and Kurdish forces
Money from Iran and the UAE winds up in the coffers of security forces and militias, while civilians are short on fuel for food and heating, and rarely have electricity
