A ceasefire ending a 15-month conflict between Israel and Hamas will begin on Sunday, January 19, brokered in Qatar. The war ...

Officials announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause more than 15 months of war and release ...

The most important feature of the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas is that, for the moment at least, the slaughter that has already killed more than 46,000 Palestinians and turned Gaza into a ...

Donald Trump has nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, while he has chosen lawyer Pam Bondi for ...

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

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 ...

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

During a relatively friendly confirmation hearing, Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for ...

Survivors of sexual violence emerging from Syria's prisons need reparations, urged Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, renowned for ...

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

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