Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of Okba, Almashan’s older brother, was among thousands of graphic...

Survivors of torture in Syrian prisons and families of those still detained or missing launched their first collective appeal to the international community on Wednesday. Their message is simple: stop torture in detention facilities immediately and reveal the fate of tens of thousands...

Buthaina al-Raimi was five years old when a Saudi airstrike destroyed her home in the Yemeni capital and killed her parents and all five of her siblings in August 2017. Ever since, she still breaks into tears for seemingly no reason. When planes fly overhead, she shouts to her uncle,...

 The US ambassador to Lebanon paid a rare visit to a quarter of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold on Thursday to attend the memorial service for political researcher and activist Luqman Salim. He was shot dead and found in his car last Thursday in south Lebanon – the first...