CAIRO — An international human rights group said Friday that visits to two Syrian security centers recently captured by rebel fighters contained proof of widespread, arbitrary detentions and torture by ... Read more
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Satellite images corroborate the accounts of residents of a fishing village north of here who say that thousands of their homes were destroyed by fire during a recent storm of ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two Syrian archbishops from Aleppo were abducted on Monday while traveling outside that besieged northern city, the official news media and antigovernment activists reported, making them ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Human Rights Watch report released Monday accused both the Syrian government and the insurgency of striking residential areas in neighboring Lebanon on several occasions and killing a ... Read more
In a letter sent to President Obama this week, the nation’s leading human rights organizations questioned the legal basis for targeted killing and called for an end to the secrecy surrounding the use of ... Read more
PARIS — A human rights advocacy group accused the Syrian authorities of war crimes on Thursday for ordering indiscriminate and in some cases deliberate airstrikes against civilians, the latest testimony ... Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — A child’s sandal, a charred begging bowl, some fire-singed tin plates. Little else but cinders remained Monday of the house here where 60 children were crammed in by a Muslim holy ... Read more
A human rights group on Tuesday accused Sri Lankan security forces of continuing to use torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence against people suspected of being Tamil Tiger rebels and their ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government fired at least four ballistic missiles last week that hit civilian neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, killing more than 141 people, including 71 ... Read more
MEXICO CITY — Nearly 150 people and possibly hundreds more have disappeared at the hands of Mexico’s police and military during the drug war with little or no investigation of the cases, a human ... Read more