Human Rights First today released an extensive new report detailing both positive developments and serious human rights concerns in Syria following the fall of the Assad government in December 2024.

Human Rights First (HRF) travelled to northeastern Syria to meet with human rights defenders as the country goes through a massive transition following the December 2024 overthrow of the Assad ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing sanctions against Albanese on Wednesday alleged that she “has spewed unabashed ...

A U.N. special rapporteur was sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing human ...

The president’s new national security memo on Cuba reaffirms his old policy of punishment, which does nothing for US interests ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes on amendment to the Trump-backed Republican domestic policy bill.

UN Commission says violence in Syria needs to end. This could mean different things for Gospel sharing in the country.

Bangladesh is in a transition phase—from autocracy to democracy. After almost 16 years of a personalistic autocracy, a popular uprising succeeded in deposing the regime in August 2024. The popular ...

As some members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) prepare to disarm, signaling a new phase in the peace process with the Turkish state, a lawmaker from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality ...

BERLIN - A Kurdish member of Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) said that Kurds must be recognized by their ethnicity ...