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

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

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

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

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

Svenja Schulze was in Damascus to discuss a new program that would see German doctors train Syrian colleagues. Many Syrian ...

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

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

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 ...

In the last nine years, at least 422,000 incidents involving unexploded ordnance – or UXO - were reported in 14 governorates ...

The market for human trafficking in Syria is pervasive, with the country ranked as among the worst in the world for human ...