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Former soldiers and officers along with members of police forces in Syria have attended reconciliation centres on December 21. The centres have been set up in part to settle the status of those who did not take part in torture and killing during Bashar al Assad's many years in power. 

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military…

A man suspected of driving a car into a German Christmas market in an attack that killed at least five people and injured scores of others faces charges of murder and attempted murder,…

Residents of Syrian towns in a province bordering Israel observe IDF troops establishing themselves in their neighborhoods. The province, Quneitra, is located on the Golan plateau. Israel took the Golan Heights in 1967 after the Six Day War. After another war that followed, a UN Buffer zone was established between Israel and Syria in 1974. This month, Syrians and international observers have reported that Israeli troops have been expanding their reach in the area - drawing concern from the UN Security Council. 

The key defence and foreign affairs portfolios in Syria's transitional government go to prominent figures in the insurgency that overthrew Bashar al-Assad nearly two weeks ago, tasked with restructing the…

The town of Tabqa in northeast Syria has become the gateway for refugees who fled the pro-Turkish offensive twenty days ago against Kurdish-controlled areas north of Aleppo. That offensive took…

The number of dead from a crowd crush in the south-east town of Okija in Nigeria has risen to 22, police say.It is the third case this week of people…

German officials faced mounting criticism on Sunday over the failure to prevent a deadly Christmas market attack in Magdeburg as it emerged that the 50-year-old suspect had made online death threats…

EPAAuthorities are still trying to understand why the suspect carried out the deadly attackMagdeburg's Christmas market is a sad sight. This should have been the busiest weekend of the season,…

Samantha Davies, currently sailing toward Cape Horn, is raising funds for a charity supporting children with heart conditions. She was France 24's guest.