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

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

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

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

Around 6.2 million Syrians fled the country during the 13-year conflict. Since the fall of Assad in a rebel offensive on 8 ...

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

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

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

The Turkish president also called for the dismantling of the Islamic State and armed Kurdish groups in the country ...

Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a ...