The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The Turkish president also called for the dismantling of the Islamic State and armed Kurdish groups in the country ...

Around 6.2 million Syrians fled the country during the 13-year conflict. Since the fall of Assad in a rebel offensive on 8 ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

The first class of Syrian police cadets since the ouster of President Bashar Assad graduated on Tuesday from the newly ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...