However, women have been marginalised by Syria’s new leadership. That’s a problem for Syrian women, of course, but it also puts at risk prospects for sustainable peace in Syria.

Syria issued a conservative new dress code Tuesday requiring women to wear burkinis or full-body swimwear on all public beaches, the latest cultural shift since Islamist-led rebels toppled ...

After ousting Syria’s longtime dictator from power last year, ending more than a decade of brutal civil war, the country’s new interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has pledged to embrace human ...

"Trust must exist first and foremost," Syrian Democratic Council representative to the U.S. Sinam Mohamad told Newsweek.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack ...

From the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls’ rights have suffered serious setbacks. But despite the challenges, there also have been improvements and victories ...

Since the war started in Syria there's been very limited medical care, especially women's care, so they didn't have access at home. And then they came over to Lebanon, where there's none either.

Syrian government security forces stand atop an earth barrier that they created as a buffer between Druze and Bedouin militias during their deployment in Busra al-Harir in Syria's southern Daraa ...

QAMISHLI – Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 people ...