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Iran's ambassador to Syria claimed five to seven people, including some diplomats, were killed and that Tehran's response would be "harsh."

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to sweep to power in another illegitimate election. How does he maintain his grip and what does it mean for Ukraine and NATO?

An Israeli airstrike on Syria's capital killed at least four Iranian advisers Saturday, state media reported.

More than 1,000 people were killed with chemical weapons in two attacks in 2013. France issued war crime arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for what appeared to be the deadliest militant attack to target Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israel across the border over the past week in the deadliest escalation since a 2006 war.

The hearing was focused on a preliminary Dutch and Canadian request for the court to impose orders on Syria to halt torture immediately to protect potential victims.

The joint application seeks to hold the government of President Bashar al-Assad accountable for gross human rights violations and torture under the U.N. Convention against Torture.

Accused procuring metals for Syrian missiles that carry chemical agents, the owner of Hournieh & Sons said the allegations were false.

Ahmed Haytham Alyafi was an 'indispensable' part of Syria's chemical weapons program, according to de-classified documents. He lived in Edmonton, immigration records show.

A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said.

Twelve days after the quake hit, workers from Kyrgyzstan tried to save a Syrian family of five from the rubble of a building in Antakya city in southern Turkey.

The United Nations launched a $1 billion appeal Thursday to help 5.2 million survivors of the most devastating earthquake in Turkey's modern history.

Efforts to help survivors and count the dead and injured in Syria were marred by the continued divisions from 12 years of civil war.

Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold.

Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck Turkey and Syria.

In the most recent development, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin flew to Turkey this week for talks on the situation in Syria.

Canada's economic sanctions regime has been on the books since 1991 but the first trial under the legislation didn't happen until 2019. Here's how and why it all fell apart.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Syria's government had reported that two cylinders were destroyed by a June 8 airstrike on a Syrian military facility.

Alexanda Anon Kotey, 37, pleaded guilty to all eight counts against him at a plea hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.