The UN rights chief called Monday for the creation of a new "mechanism" tasked with preparing criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority. In her first speech as head of the UN rights office, Michelle Bachelet...

Bashar al-Assad has approved a gas attack in the Idlib province, which is the country’s last rebel stronghold, a report on Sunday said. Reports of Assad's approval comes about a week after President Trump warned the strongman and his allies not to “recklessly attack” the province....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-backed rebel group arrested 4 Daesh militants near the border crossing of al-Tanaf who were sneaking to Iraq, commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Asaad Kahil said the Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo had captured the jihadists who were fleeing the Sweida desert...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Liberation Front, key rebel group in northwestern Syria, have pounded the Mujanzarat School in Hama province with rocket-propelled grenades in retaliation to the regime's heavy bombing on Idlib province, local activists said Sunday.  The...