Topic: Assad

The Trump administration has announced sanctions against a Chinese company for working with an Iranian airline that has been designated by U.S. authorities for supporting terrorism.

Syrian government forces have committed a series of humanitarian violations that amount to "war crimes" in its campaign against rebels, Amnesty International said in an analysis Monday.

For the 80 million suffering and oppressed people of Iran, imagining a better future, without the mullahs, may be the first necessary step on the way to achieving it.

Kim Jong Un sent a diplomatic letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, state media said, amid speculation the North Korean leader could be in poor health.

Although their purported crimes occurred outside of Germany, prosecutors are trying the pair under a principle known as "universal jurisdiction."

Iran's Supreme Audit Court presented a devastating report to parliament on Tuesday showing how $4.8 billion had gone missing from government funds in 2018, pointing to massive corruption by the ruling mullahs.

Military forces of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday made their fourth joint ground patrol in the past month in Syria's heavily contested northwest to monitor a cease-fire, officials said.

Grasping at straws like a dying beast, the Iranian regime is pleading with the world to persuade America to end its maximum pressure campaign and ditch sanctions, so that it can tackle the coronavirus crisis.

Syria's Assad regime used sarin and chlorine gas in three attacks on opposition forces in March 2017, a chemical weapons oversight group said in a report released Wednesday.

A new United Nations report accuses Syrian government forces and its allies of targeting attacks on healthcare facilities in the nation's heavily contested northwest.