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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The Salem Township supervisors will vote on a wind farm ordinance regulating setbacks, color, noise, decommissioning and more ...