Dozens of independent UN experts voiced alarm Friday over the repression of fundamental freedoms in China, demanding urgent action from the UN Human Rights Council. Around 50 special rapporteurs and other experts denounced the "repression of protest and democracy advocacy" in Hong...

Many figures involved in the means established by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime to brutally suppress the civil war that started in March 2011 have been implicated as war criminals. War crimes committed by the Assad regime, including the use of chemical weapons, rape, torture, the...

The Caesar Civilian Protection Act comes into force this Wednesday 17 June, bringing an outlook for Bashar al-Assad's regime that hasn't appeared so bleak since the rapid rebel gains of 2015.  The Caesar Act was passed by the US Senate in 2019, with the stated goal of more targeted and...

The federal government is seizing a Waltham home that a fugitive couple allegedly used to unlawfully ship goods to Syria, including to a company linked to improvised explosive devices used against US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, prosecutors said. In a statement, US Attorney Andrew E....