The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria says the country’s new authorities were ...

Tensions in northeast Syria between Kurdish-led authorities and Turkish-backed groups should be resolved politically or risk ...

Resolution 2254, agreed upon by the UN Security Council in 2015, outlined how the Syrian civil war might end and how the country could transition to democracy. But is it still fit for purpose now so ...

The IIIM did not disclose which officials in the new government it met with or the site that Robert Petit visited afterward. The UN organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in ...

The transfer marks the end of an era when Russia played an arguably oversized role in determining which countries could ...

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating serious crimes in Syria received a positive response from the new authorities, enabling potential deployment. The team's leader, Robert Petit, ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

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Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the ...

Former president Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels took control of Syria’s capital Damascus ...

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