The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

UNHCR Cyprus has raised concerns over a reported “pushback incident on March 14 involving three boats carrying approximately ...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) issued an announcement alleging that the Cypriot authorities had ...

An Alberta judge has ordered two Edmonton women captured in Syria during the defeat of the Islamic State to take part in a deradicalization program. At a court appearance on Friday, Helena Carson and ...

Before Germany, Italy reopened its embassy last year before the fall of Assad, and Spain reopened its embassy after his ...

A pair of women repatriated to Edmonton after living in territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State have agreed to ...

Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad condemned European countries for lifting sanctions on Syria's new "terrorist" regime that is "killing civilians." ...

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

Rescuers searched through debris and recovered 16 bodies, including five women and five children, and reported that 18 others ...

on 13 March has been met with condemnation by minority groups in Syria, including Kurds, Assyrians, Syriacs and women's organisations. These groups have argued that the draft declaration will entrench ...

Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad ... probably closer to 9,000 Syrians, mostly women and children," she said Thursday. Entire families, women and children included, were slaughtered ...