Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz ... while the sky was filled with the flashing colors of fireworks. Women wearing colorful dresses with gold and silver jewelry and men dressed ...

An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the ...

"The Assad regime, under increasing pressure by the Syrian opposition, ... Syria is "hemorrhaging women, children and men," the UN said, .... As with Senate hearings before, they are likely from the ...

Syria's new constitutional declaration enshrines women's "social, political and economic rights," the committee that drafted it announced on Thursday as the president signed it into force. The ...

As the latest clashes intensify in Syria ... women to access education from preschool through to university is urgently needed. What is essential is a collective effort to create an environment where ...

Syria witnessed one of the deadliest clashes between security forces and loyalists of the ousted President Bashar al-Assad, killing over 1,000 people in two days. In the clashes that erupted on ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the total number of civilian martyrs amounted to 973 - including women and children. On top of this, 125 government security force members ...

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor ... On the condition of anonymity, one person even told Sky News that women were being forced to "walk naked" before being shot and a ...