Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to inform the report on older persons in armed conflict and ...

SINGAPORE - Singapore used an internal security law against two teenagers separately, one over plans to attack mosques and the other for wanting to fight in Syria alongside Islamic State militants, ...

The brave members of the Women’s Protection Units are standing firm against dual threats of the IS and Turkish-backed rebel ...

Armed opposition groups all over Syria – both those fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and others with no links to the FSA – have committed a growing number of serious abuses and ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

A prominent Canadian legal association is apologizing after it cancelled a keynote speech by Syrian Canadian humanitarian advocate Tareq Hadhad, prompting sharp criticism from many of its members.Last ...

Hezbollah is known for being a powerful militia and is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by countries including the UK ...

Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza today, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized ...