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Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says. Geir Pedersen told the U.N.

"We want to help people go home, but we want to make sure they do so safely," the head of the UN's International Organisation ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding accountability for violations and abuses by ...

Syria has welcomed a UN resolution aimed at investigating and improving human-rights after its 13-year civil war. The ...

The move is a blow to North Korea, which once counted Damascus as an ally until the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime ... diplomatic ties with all 191 UN members, including the Holy ...

The United States on Thursday raised alarm over the resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaida, and Iran-backed ...

Kawa Hassan, an Iraqi analyst at the Washington-based Stimson Center, was blunt in his assessment: “If the Syrian Kurds are ...

Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the ...