In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

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

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

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 ...

The group "25 January Revolutionaries" announced a statement on Tuesday saying that its Syria-based Egyptian leader Ahmed ...

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 ...