Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the opportunity to establish a new government that respects human rights.

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

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 ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

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

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

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

Syria's new rulers faces one of their first serious challenges: bread lines. For Syrians, the long wait is a struggle — but ...

The file of individuals implicated in war crimes and human rights violations under the deposed Syrian regime remains one of ...

Also fleeing the country was Shehab Fatoum, a Syrian actor who has been away from his homeland for almost 10 years and now ...