The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad ...

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 ...

Assad, Syrians living in the Quneitra governorate in the Golan Heights looked on as Israeli troops suddenly drove into their ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that humanity had unleashed a "Pandora's box of ills," ...

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

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

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

One of the most pervasive myths of the Palestinian protest movement is that Israel has denied statehood to the Palestinian people. To the contrary, Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937 ...

In the last nine years, at least 422,000 incidents involving unexploded ordnance – or UXO - were reported in 14 governorates ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the ...

Volker Türk also urges transitional justice for victims, saying it enhances public trust in state institutions as the country ...