The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has visited the notorious Sednaya prison outside Damascus.

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

DAMASCUS, Syria — The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on ...

Watch the transformation of ordinary chains into a stunning mini Damascus steel cleaver! See each step, from forging 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 ...

In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism ...

Assad’s trove of luxury vehicles worth millions of dollars in the fallen dictator’s Presidential Palace in Damascus. The high ...

Brett Holmgren got woken up early on New Year's Day by alerts that a driver had plowed into a crowd of revelers in New ...

Criminals should be tried and justice must be served as victims and their loved ones waiting for so long, demonstrator tells ...

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian militant who had fought with Islamist forces against toppled Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad's rule over threats he made on social media to the Cairo ...

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