Prominent women human rights defender Everjoice Jeketa Win, popularly known as EJ, has died. She was 60.Her family confirmed the death, saying she died in Johannesburg, South Africa this morning. “It ...

The recent killings of Alawite and Christian civilians by the new Syrian government have been condemned by the U.S., while the EU offered a different response.

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

After nearly 70 years of repressive Chinese state rule, government policies that seek to forcibly assimilate non-Han peoples ...

As questions over sports and health care for transgender people roil Maine and the nation, advocates say Maine’s protections ...

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed yesterday for calm and unity after violence erupted last week between ...

JERUSALEM -- Israel announced Sunday it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects were not immediately clear, but the arid territory's desalination plants receive power for ...

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the ...

The killing of at least 745 civilians in massacres targeting the Alawite minority in Syria exposes the criminality of NATO ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, also called on Syria’s interim government to investigate these murders ...

GRAPHIC CONTENTCrowds of Syrians protested in the capital Damascus on Sunday, demanding an end to an outbreak of deadly ...