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 Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

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

A ‘Greater Israel’ will consist of a population which is solidly against Israel.

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 ...

Multiple mediators have confirmed that Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire that would pause the war in Gaza and release ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says ceasefire deal with Hamas has still not been reached and that the final details were still being sorted out ...

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

It took eight months of mediation and the joint efforts of both old and new US administrations, alongside those of Egypt and Qatar, to get Israel and Hamas to commit.

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

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

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