The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established ...

France plans to hold a conference on Syria in Paris on Feb. 13, the French presidency said in a statement on Thursday.

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he ...

The president-elect may want to withdraw U.S. troops from the area, but if he does, he’d put a victory he’s proud of at risk.

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

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

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 ...

Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the opportunity to establish a new government that respects human rights.

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