Cathrin Schaer

One of the world's biggest sporting goods trade fairs is determinedly turning away from the traditional business of writing orders and heading toward making contacts, initiating collaborations and d

The HTS rebel group that freed Syria from dictator Bashar Assad is setting up a new government. Its status as a terror group complicates its possible international relations, but is that reason enough to de-list it?

Clashes between Syrian Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed Syrian militias could be one of the biggest potential problems in Syria as the country grapples with life after dictator Bashar Assad.

Syria's dictator is thought to have taken billions out of the Syrian economy — money the devastated country desperately needs.

Resolution 2254, agreed upon by the UN Security Council in 2015, outlined how the Syrian civil war might end and how the country could transition to democracy.

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting pre-existing divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

Syria is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But now the focus of those sanctions, the Assad regime, has gone, experts say the inherited restrictions endanger a peaceful transition and the new government.

A Belgian non-profit is trying to prosecute Israeli soldiers, should they leave Israel, for alleged war crimes. German law would allow for this. Could Israeli soldiers on vacation in Germany be arrested?