Three rights group on Monday appealed to Syria's new rulers to urgently preserve evidence of atrocities committed under former president Bashar al-Assad.

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating serious crimes in Syria received a positive response from the new authorities, enabling potential deployment. The team's leader, Robert Petit, ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said Monday the ...

Assad's regime and the PKK's drug trade has been fueling violence and terror, financing illicit operations globally ...

Hostilities have escalated between Syrian rebels backed by Ankara and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the north-east. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Resolution 2254, agreed upon by the UN Security Council in 2015, outlined how the Syrian civil war might end and how the country could transition to democracy. But is it still fit for purpose now so ...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers on Monday that "some progress" had been made in negotiations to ...

Tensions in northeast Syria between Kurdish-led authorities and Turkish-backed groups should be resolved politically or risk ...

The transfer marks the end of an era when Russia played an arguably oversized role in determining which countries could ...

Despite her pleasant air and sense of fashion, the now former Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad was bound to be tied to her husband's fate. Born and raised in the UK, she was respected by some for ...

Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the ...