Human Rights Watch has been working on Syria for years. This video features two of Human Rights Watch's investigations in 2013, including the al-Bayda massacre and the Ghouta attacks.

The execution-style killing of four members of  Iraq ’s SWAT forces, apparently by the ISIS armed group, is the latest atrocity in a campaign of widespread and systematic murder that amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today. Men presenting themselves as...

Trucked exports of oil from  Iraq  to neighbouring Jordan have been halted due to deteriorating security in Anbar province where militants have overrun the city of Falluja, an oil ministry spokesman said. When the exports were halted was not clear, but Asim Jihad said the...

Stroking a Persian leopard sprawled on his lap, tough-guy President Vladimir Putin showed his softer side Tuesday as he prepared to welcome the world to his budget-busting Winter Olympics. Basking in the glow of support from International Olympic Committee Chairman Thomas Bach, Putin...