In the first visit ever by a U.N. rights commissioner to Damascus, Turk met with the head of Syria's new administration, ...

Around 6.2 million Syrians fled the country during the 13-year conflict. Since the fall of Assad in a rebel offensive on 8 ...

Volker Turk has become the first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Syria, where he met with the country’s de ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of ...

A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the genocide against the ...

In the last nine years, at least 422,000 incidents involving unexploded ordnance – or UXO - were reported in 14 governorates ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the ...

The director of the UN World Food Program warned that some governments resist calls to boost funds for urgent humanitarian ...

Volker Türk also urges transitional justice for victims, saying it enhances public trust in state institutions as the country ...

The market for human trafficking in Syria is pervasive, with the country ranked as among the worst in the world for human ...

I can only hope from the bottom of my heart that this is a lesson for the world that we must never allow such cruelties to ...