The world readied to usher in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid virus-ridden 2020 farewell. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.7 million people die from Covid-19, fresh waves of infection have sparked renewed...

It is estimated that about 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point since March 2011. During this period, an estimated number of 99 000 persons have been forcibly disappeared, while the Syrian Regime is responsible for about 84 000 of these cases (SNHR Report of...

Turkey's defense minister inspected troops deployed along the country's border with Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry said Hulusi Akar was accompanied by Turkish Chief of General Staff Yasar Guler and the commanders-in-chief of the armed...

Benny Gantz, the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long dominance of Israeli politics, is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March. With his centrist Blue and White party on...