UN chief Antonio Guterres launched a "call to action" on Monday against rising attacks on human rights, highlighting the persecution of minorities and "alarming levels of femicide". "Human rights are under assault," said the secretary-general as he opened the UN Human Rights Council's main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy clashes reported in the southern countryside of Idlib province between regime forces and Turkish-backed factions as Damascus mobilizes troops to invade the town of Kafranbel, local activists said Sunday.  Bashar al-Assad’s forces have captured three...

Around 10,000 protesters marched through the central German town of Hanau Sunday to mourn the nine people who were killed by an immigrant-hating gunman four days ago. "These days and hours are the blackest and darkest our town has ever experienced during peace times," Hanau mayor Claus...

 Several Turkish troops were wounded Sunday in Syria's Idlib province after Syrian regime forces targeted a Turkish military convoy with heavy artillery, prompting it to retreat northwards, the Syrian Observatory monitoring group reported. Turkey has sent thousands of troops to...