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 ...

A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the genocide against the ...

Volker Türk also urges transitional justice for victims, saying it enhances public trust in state institutions as the country ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

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

While the world waits to see how Syria's new leadership will govern the war-torn country, Canadian International Development ...

In-depth: The Druze community is navigating a complex path in post-Assad Syria, striving to preserve its autonomy and wary of ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...

On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the fall of Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad was not only a ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...