Top US officials say that Sudan's military leader has used chemical weapons—twice, reports the New York Times. The allegation ...

Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

Fear about how the country’s new Sunni Islamist rulers will act toward Syria’s various minorities, such as the Kurds and Alawites, is already brewing. Some rights groups and critics have pointed to ...

European Union foreign ministers will meet in late January to discuss easing sanctions imposed on Syria, the bloc's foreign ...

Twenty-eight Egyptian, Arab, and international human rights NGOs have issued a joint statement expressing “deep concern” over ...

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

Public hangings are generally from a construction crane, an especially slow and agonizing execution method.The frenzy of ...

Activist Abdel-Rahman al-Qaradawi faces grave risks after Lebanon’s swift extradition to UAE, raising questions about ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...