A U.N. rights watchdog called on Sri Lanka on Wednesday to investigate "routine torture" of detainees by security forces and rebuked its government for failing to prosecute war crimes committed during the country's 26-year civil war. The Sri Lankan military finally vanquished the separatist...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday urged all actors in Syria to follow through on the pledges they made earlier to the Syrian people. All sides, including the Assad regime and armed opposition groups in Syria, continue to attack hospitals, schools, water sources, and infrastructure,...

More Syrians have fled eastern Aleppo, with reports of about 800 arriving in the past 24 hours at a disused cotton factory in the Jibreen district of west Aleppo and 1,260 in Hanano district, retaken by government forces, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. Bus loads of civilians continue to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 33 civilians have been killed on Tuesday in air strikes hit the northern province of Idlib as regime and powerful ally Russia wage brutal aerial bombing that killed about 100 people in three days, local activists said. A regime strike hit a marketplace in the village...