Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...

Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Dec 20 called for an end to violence against civilians caught in a years-long civil war in Myanmar, and the immediate release of democracy icon Aung ...

More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the UN human rights chief said on ...

Over 20 months in, the war in Sudan shows no sign of slowing down and, in fact, continues to escalate. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns that the recent surge in arrivals in South Sudan is ...

More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan's North Darfur state since May, the U.N. human rights chief said ...

The U.N. human rights office will send a small team of human rights officers to Syria next week for the first time in years ...

Theresa May originally decided not to deport the convicted drugs supplier, concluding he did not pose a danger ...

Nicaragua's constitutional reform gives the state more power against media in ways replicated in countries that penalize ...

For two days, on December 12 and 13, Armenian and international experts gathered in Yerevan to discuss genocide risk factors ...

The Daily Brief also took a breather from more serious concerns on occasion. I did one edition of the Daily Brief from a tram ...

Russian advances on the front line have been accompanied for nearly a year by an unprecedented number of executions of ...

A Turkish drug baron who was jailed for 16 years for a major plot to supply heroin across the UK has been allowed to remain ...