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

Turkish Airlines announced that it would resume flights to Syria's capital Damascus on Jan. 23 after nearly a 14-year hiatus.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism.