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

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

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

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 Palestinian prime minister says it's unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...

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

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

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he ...

Brett Holmgren spoke to The Associated Press just days before he leaves his position at the end of the Biden administration.

The Palestinian prime minister says it’s unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...

Survivors of sexual violence emerging from Syria's prisons need reparations, urged Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, renowned for ...