Despite mounting pressure from lawmakers and civil society organisations, Denmark is determined to push ahead with efforts to return Syrian refugees to war-torn Syria as it claims conditions in parts of the country have improved. The Nordic country decided last year to review hundreds of...

Yemen government forces have thwarted a "massive" Huthi attack west of Marib city and reinforced their positions as they defend their last northern stronghold, two military commanders and an official said Tuesday. But they said the Iran-backed insurgents had advanced in four areas of the...

Because of a letter he wrote to his friends, Riyad Ular, a Turkish student in Syria, spent over 20 years in the regime’s darkest prisons of the political security, the military Sednaya and Adra prison, with his family oblivious to his whereabouts for years. Ular, 45, came from a...

A leading Syrian rights group Monday called on the international community to reject next month’s presidential elections because they will take place under the rule of President Bashar Assad, who is implicated in war crimes. Paris-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, describing the...