ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces kept up their barrage of southern Ukraine, hitting the major Black Sea port of Odesa with cruise missiles and bombarding the steelworks up the coast in Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters remained trapped underground after the last civilians were...

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...

A Syrian human rights activist described the Syrian regime's decision to release detainees over the past two days in several regions as a major deception, disproving this decision with numbers and facts.  Lawyer Abdel Nasser Hoshan said in a post on his personal Facebook page that...

In Syria, the immediate effects of the war in Ukraine have made an already difficult humanitarian situation even worse. Protracted violence in Ukraine or an expansion of the Ukraine war into a larger NATO-Russia confrontation would endanger multilateral cooperation on conflict management,...