The Syrian regime released 72 detainees from Daraa in two batches, all of whom were arrested after the regime took control of the southern province in July 2018, the Ahrar Houran Gathering said.   The local monitoring group said that 17 conscripts in the regime forces were released and at...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — When the moist concrete walls deep below ground and the mold and the cold and the weeks without fresh fruit or vegetables became too much to bear, some in the bunker underneath Elina Tsybulchenko’s office decided to visit the sky. They made their way, through...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report, released Thursday, that it documented at least 194 arbitrary arrests/detentions in April 2022, including six children and three women, noting that the monthly number of arbitrary arrests carried out by the...