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 Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

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

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

But since he and his fellow jihadists advanced from Idlib, their northern enclave, and toppled the Assads on December 8th, ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of ...

The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S. journalist Austin Tice was ...

Germany’s foreign minister says sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called ...

International flights in and out of Syria’s main airport in Damascus will resume next week after being halted since rebels ...

Christians in Syria continue to seek more concrete guarantees, although opinions differ on what form these guarantees should ...

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at the Damascus ...