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A Syrian man arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin's Holocaust memorial that seriously wounded a Spanish man had been harbouring a "plan to kill Jews", police and prosecutors said Saturday.

Exclusive: Mustafa Hajj-Obeid, who left Australia in 2015, is being held in Panorama prison, a detention centre for accused IS members run by the SDF

The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013.

As of February 2025, Iran is one of several countries on the list where the FCDO advises against all travel due to ongoing political tensions, security risks, and the possibility of arrest.

More than half a million newly naturalized citizens will be able to vote in Germany’s national election for the first time this weekend

Christians in northeast Syria this month will mark the 10th anniversary of an attack by the Islamic State group on more than 30 villages

Militia keeping IS in check pressured by new regime in Damascus, emboldened Turkey and US unpredictability

The capture of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad last December sent shockwaves through Syria’s political landscape, heralding an unprecedented shift in power. The rise to power of HTS, formerly the Al-Nusra Front, is a litmus test for assessing whether militant…

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the future

The French judiciary is investigating the 2012 deaths of reporters in Syria as a possible crime against humanity, anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.