Unnamed Hezbollah commander murdered people in Syrian civil war and led 60-member unit.

A trial related to the January 2015 deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo employees and other targets is set to begin Wednesday in Paris. The gunmen fatally shot illustrators and journalists at Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, as well as a police officer and shoppers at a Jewish supermarket during …

Oleg Manaev, a Belarusian opposition figure now living in exile, says Russian intervention would lead to targeted repression aimed at preventing the emergence of a coordinated opposition, but also a further weakening of Lukashenko’s legitimacy and deepening splits in society.