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 United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong civil war, now that former leader Bashar Assad has been ousted and sent into e ...

The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism.

WASHINGTON DC - It is early to evaluate the work of the new government in Damascus, led by the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ...