The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday that extrajudicial killing claimed the lives of 723 civilians in the first half of 2021, noting that 95 civilians were documented killed in June 2021, including 22 children, eight women and 11 individuals due to torture.   The...

Overlooking war-battered Gaza from the tenth floor of a tower block, Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani has a new bundle of files -- on victims of last month's war with Israel. For years, he has been building cases in the Israeli-blockaded enclave to be submitted to the...

- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that 10,000 Islamic State fighters continue to be held in detention in camps run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that this situation was "untenable". Speaking at the opening of a meeting in Rome to renew...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Maerg was serving customers at his cafe in Ethiopia’s Tigray village of Togoga when the military airstrike occurred, filling the room with dust and bringing down debris that struck him on the head. “Everything was covered in black smoke, it was like a...