Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children ...

Violent clashes, which a war monitoring group said had already killed 1,311 people, have continued for a fourth day in deposed president Bashar al Assad's coastal heartland. Volker Turk, the UN ...

The bloodshed in the coastal heartland of former ruler Bashar al-Assad saw more than 800 people ... Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR) spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan ...

More than one million people have returned to their homes in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, including 280,000 refugees who came back from abroad, the UN said on Tuesday.

the UN human rights office said. The wave of violence broke out last Thursday, when armed groups loyal to deposed former President Bashar al-Assad ambushed security forces in the province of ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed president Bashar al-Assad swept ... The UN human rights office said ...

Almost 200 people have died in clashes between Syrian government forces and fighters loyal to the country's former president Bashar al Assad ... Geir O Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk also called ... to join the fight against fighters linked to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. (Mahmoud Hassano/Reuters) Syria's state news agency SANA reported ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 1 ...