Witnesses have reported executions as fighters linked to the Syrian government intervened in Suweida following clashes ...

STORY: Smoke billowed over the embattled southern Syrian city of Sweida on Friday following nearly a week of bloodshed that ...

Syria ’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is facing mounting criticism over his decision to promote several former militia leaders—accused of serious human rights violations—to top ...

As Syria’s president preaches human rights, new evidence details abuse allegedly carried out under one of his key commanders By Tamara Qiblawi , Allegra Goodwin and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN ...

The 74-page report, “Everything is by the Power of the Weapon: Abuses and Impunity in Turkish-Occupied Northern Syria,” documents abductions, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, sexual ...

JUDY WOODRUFF: This week, the United Nations released a report on children and the Syria conflict. It found that the Syrian government is responsible for thousands of deaths, and charged that it ...

Western-backed opposition groups in Syria are recruiting refugee children in neighbouring countries and Syrian government forces are detaining and torturing children with rebel links, U.N. chief ...

Syria's authorities were among the worse violators of human rights last year, jailing lawyers, torturing opponents and using violence to repress ethnic Kurds, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes ... Kurdish residents in northern in Syria. ...

The governments of Egypt, Syria and Iraq used real and perceived security threats in 2014 as an excuse to downplay or abandon the rights of their citizens, which ultimately fuelled crises, Human ...