The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism.

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

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of ...

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he ...

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

The Palestinian prime minister says it's unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...

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

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...

Through prayer and protest, believers struggle to interpret the promises of newly ascendant Islamist leadership.

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Saturday during his first visit to Syria since president Bashar al-Assad's fall that demarcating the countries' shared land and sea borders was a key concern.