But Syria’s new authorities have faced backlash, particularly from the Kurds, for appointing militia leaders complicit in serious human rights abuses, including Ahmad al-Hayes, better known as ...

A CNN investigation, which draws on interviews with witnesses, exclusive videos and images, gives searing new insight into the scope of abuses allegedly carried out under the command of Sayf Boulad ...

Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria as Syrian government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias ...

CIJA’s Syria team of 45 people studied the documents to detail the growth of the shabbiha groups from neigbourhood-level loyalist groups to a well-organised militia, and later a parallel wing of ...

This still image taken from amateur video shows protesters defacing a giant poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Deraa, Syria March 25, 2011. Footage taken March 25, 2011.

Assad’s Fall in Syria Sheds New Light on Human Rights Abuses. The fall of former Syrian ... An estimated 150,000 people are believed to have been detained or reported ... or Syrian militia ...

A new report has found "systemic" corruption in humanitarian aid to Syria, with individuals accused of human rights abuses benefiting from procurement contracts with United Nations agencies ...

The European Union sanctioned on Wednesday three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human-rights abuses over their alleged involvement in deadly ethnic violence in March ...

A German court on Wednesday sentenced a former member of a Syrian militant group closely allied with ex-Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad to 10 years in prison for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes ... Kurdish residents in northern in Syria. ...

Iranian-backed militia groups have resumed attacks on U.S. bases. A United States military base in eastern Syria was attacked by a one-way drone, according to a U.S. defense official. "On Aug. 9 ...

Since Oct. 18, there have been close to 170 attacks taking place on a nearly daily basis as Iranian-backed militia groups target U.S bases in Iraq and Syria, supposedly in retaliation for the ...