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 ...

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

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

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

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged all countries to "take their hands off" Syria and said Turkey had the ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S.

Germany’s foreign minister says sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called ...

For weeks, Iranian officials have downplayed the fall of their ally in Syria. But an important general has offered a ...

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

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...