In the blink of an eye Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s authoritarian president, fled to Russia while his lackeys fled to Lebanon or Iraq. Syrians could embrace new freedoms, refugees flocked home to loved ...

Officials say that Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade.

The Palestinian prime minister says it's unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...

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

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 ...

Amid the turmoil, Israel expanded its occupation of Syrian land in the south of the country, expelling hundreds of Syrians ...

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

Brett Holmgren got woken up early on New Year's Day by alerts that a driver had plowed into a crowd of revelers in New ...

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

The group "25 January Revolutionaries" announced a statement on Tuesday saying that its Syria-based Egyptian leader Ahmed ...