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.

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 ...

Ghayath Al-Farah, Syria's Deputy Tourism Minister, said in an interview with Zaman al‑Wasl TV, translated from Arabic: "Burkinis or Sharia-compliant clothes are accepted in public swimming places and ...

Syria's Islamist-led government has said women should wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body on public beaches, though an official denied there was any ban on Western beachwear and ...

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territory ...

“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,” Trump said in the audio. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia ...

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

The world is facing one of the fastest-growing human rights crises: religious persecution, increasingly escalating into ethno-religious cleansing and genocide.

Israel has denied this accusation, though some human rights observers have reached this conclusion ... Israel's siege of Gaza has killed 55,700 Palestinian people, mostly women and children, according ...

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

Iran's regime has executed several people, and arrested hundreds, while seeking to keep domestic opposition in check as its ...