The Syrian state and allied militia have detained and abducted tens of thousands of people since 2011 in a campaign of enforced disappearances that is a crime against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday. The rights watchdog interviewed relatives of the...

The Syrian military bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where around 100 people were killed on Sunday in an air strike on a market, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Sunday's air strike on Douma, 10 miles (15 km)...

Afghanistan said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, the elusive leader of the Taliban movement fighting to topple the government, died more than two years ago. The announcement came a day or so before a second round of peace talks had been tentatively scheduled, and news of the fate of the...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented, during the month of May 2015, 45 massacres at least as follows: A. Government forces: 38 massacres B. Daesh: three massacres C. Armed opposition factions: three massacres D. International Coalition forces: one massacre The regional...