AS REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were ...

Whether Syria’s new leadership is truly seeking reconciliation — or consolidating power under a new flag — will determine ...

A Kurdish-led rebel coalition which dominates north-eastern Syria has signed a deal with the interim government in Damascus. The agreement, which means the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces ...

Armed men stormed the home of Noureddine al-Labbad in the town of Al-Sanamayn, opening fire on him and his brother before fleeing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...

I fear that a period of darkness is descending on our entire neighborhood as the world looks on,” one senior East African ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated ...

Fears of an environmental disaster eased on Wednesday, two days after a container ship ploughed into a stationary U.S. fuel ...

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Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana until at least next week after an initial court hearing Wednesday over the ...