A cease-fire announced Wednesday will end the 15-month war between Hamas and Israel and includes the eventual release of all ...

Qatar’s prime minister said the deal would go into effect on Sunday. Israel said final details still need ironing out.

At least 10 people were killed in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, a local official said ...

Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza killed more than 46,600 people, with just over ...

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

Hope suppresses the reality of the future of Syria. Pundits were wrong about the Arab Spring, projecting perspectives into ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

On meeting with Lebanese parliament speaker, Jose Manuel Albares conveys Madrid's 'support for progress in forming new ...

U.N. rights commissioner Volker Turk advocates for a Syrian national reconciliation to address crimes from the Assad family's 54-year rule. Turk, visiting Damascus post-Assad's fall, emphasizes ...

In the first visit ever by a U.N. rights commissioner to Damascus, Turk met with the head of Syria's new administration, ...

Around 6.2 million Syrians fled the country during the 13-year conflict. Since the fall of Assad in a rebel offensive on 8 ...

UNICEF has warned that hundreds of children in Syria continue to suffer the brutal impact of unexploded ordnance ...