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

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

UNICEF has warned that hundreds of children in Syria continue to suffer the brutal impact of unexploded ordnance ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...