Jordan reopened Monday two border posts closed nine months ago due to the coronavirus pandemic -- one with Saudi Arabia, the other with Syria -- the interior ministry said. But there are strict limits on the numbers allowed in each day and travellers are required to be in possession of...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has issued its annual report the most notable violations against media workers in Syria for World Press Freedom Day, noting that 709 journalists and media workers have been killed since March 2011, including 52 due to torture.   The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday formally raised the nation's cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ceiling set by former President Donald Trump. Refugee resettlement agencies have...

The Syrian activist Tamer Al-Turkmani has recorded 183 massacres committed by the Syrian regime and key allies in April of every year since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011.   The death toll topped  2,661, including 582 children and 358 women.   The massacres...