UN News Centre10m
UN rights chief in historic meeting in Syria’s with caretaker authority in Damascus
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad ...
The Economist12m
A short history of Syria, in maps
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
UN rights chief urges reconciliation process in first Syria visit
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...
Middle East Eye58m
Looting and destruction: The reality of return for Syria’s 13 million displaced
Around 6.2 million Syrians fled the country during the 13-year conflict. Since the fall of Assad in a rebel offensive on 8 ...
US must not become complacent to a growing terrorism threat, a Counterterrorism Center official says
The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism.
France 2445m
Despite Israel’s threatening presence, Syrians in Golan refuse to leave ‘in exchange for peace’
Assad, Syrians living in the Quneitra governorate in the Golan Heights looked on as Israeli troops suddenly drove into their ...