The new leadership in Damascus is exerting efforts to mend fences with Syria’s Druze community, weeks after the latter’s spiritual leaders accused the new Syrian government of being “extremist in ...

The number, far higher than any previous estimate, poses a test for the new government. Experts fear that sarin, chlorine and ...

Syria’s government said late on Friday that it was “closely following” the findings of a new Amnesty International report ...

The Syrian government on Saturday said it is ready to cooperate with human rights organizations, but that Amnesty ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Syria welcomed a United Nations resolution on Friday to investigate violations and improve the country's human-rights record ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to inform the report on older persons in armed conflict and ...

The bombardment signals the risks of a deepening rift between two powerful regional militaries over Syria, where Islamist ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Syrian state media has reported that at least nine people in southwestern Syria have been killed in Israeli strikes.

The United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of destabilising Syria after a wave of strikes on military targets, including ...