Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security Department in Daraa, was arrested by General Security forces in the country’s western Latakia province, state media SANA said.

Syria's General Security Directorate announced the arrest of Atef Najib, a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, in the coastal province of Latakia, a figure ...

Atef Najib was detained in the Latakia region, an Assad family stronghold where some loyalists of the former regime have taken refuge. Assad and his family fled to Russia when rebels swept across ...

Israel delayed the release of 110 Palestinian prisoners for several hours after broadcast images showed crowds jostling and cheering in Gaza as Israeli and Thai hostages were handed over to the Red ...

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly U.T. Khader said he endorsed Legislative Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti’s statement on the State government’s decision to order a CID probe into the ...

Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Tareq Al Hilou, Eugenia Yosef, Lauren Izso, Dana Karni and Khader Al-Za’anoun, a journalist with WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, contributed reporting.

Mangaluru: UT Khader, Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly, visited Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Friday at the invitation of Satish Mahana, Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

(Atef Safadi/Pool Photo via AP, File) Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, flanked by his security detail, approach the entrance to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy ...