Human Rights First today released an extensive new report detailing both positive developments and serious human rights concerns in Syria following the fall of the Assad government in December 2024.

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

Human Rights First (HRF) travelled to northeastern Syria to meet with human rights defenders as the country goes through a massive transition following the December 2024 overthrow of the Assad ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

A U.N. special rapporteur has been sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing ...

The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...

The president’s new national security memo on Cuba reaffirms his old policy of punishment, which does nothing for US interests ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes on amendment to the Trump-backed Republican domestic policy bill.

Bangladesh is in a transition phase—from autocracy to democracy. After almost 16 years of a personalistic autocracy, a popular uprising succeeded in deposing the regime in August 2024. The popular ...

As some members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) prepare to disarm, signaling a new phase in the peace process with the Turkish state, a lawmaker from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality ...

BERLIN - A Kurdish member of Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) said that Kurds must be recognized by their ethnicity ...

Marco Rubio's proposal will wipe out expertise and infrastructure that promote justice abroad and keeps Americans safe at ...