Two years after her father, human rights lawyer Khalil Matouq, suffered the same fate, Raneem was kidnapped by Syrian authorities in 2014. She was released after two months in detention, while her father remains missing to this day. 　　For Raneem, the worst part is knowing what conditions her father faces... More

　　Israel’s detainment of hundreds of Palestinian children over the past two months has flooded the Israeli prison system and raised concerns about the conditions children are being detained in. 　　More than 300 Palestinian minors have been arrested since the beginning of October, according to Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer, forcing... More

　　Ismail Abu Shebab, a shy 11-year-old taking a break from school, opened his mouth to speak - but the overhead roar of Israeli warplanes made his words nearly inaudible. 　　As the aircraft came closer, Abu Shebab grew silent. 　　Abu Shebab suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of... More

　　The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a Monday report that 1,793 people were killed in December. 　　The group said that this year’s death toll now stands at 21,179 – 75 percent of whom were killed by the Assad regime. 　　The London-based NGO documented 15,748 deaths by regime... More

　　Israel is razing Palestinian homes and other buildings constructed with international aid at an "alarming" rate, the UN says, with more demolitions so far this year than in all of 2015. 　　In total 121 structures funded partly or fully by international donors were demolished in the occupied West Bank between... More

　　More than 10 million Iraqis are in need of immediate humanitarian aid, according to UN estimates. 　　Iraqi civilians and officials have voiced concern over the humanitarian situation in the country's western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. 　　For almost two years now, Fallujah has endured a siege imposed on the city... More

　　The UN human rights chief has said there are "extremely distressing, credible reports" that Iraqis fleeing the fighting in Fallujah are facing extreme abuse and even death at the hands of Shia armed groups allied with the government troops. 　　Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, citing witness testimonies, said on Tuesday that... More

　　Syrian regime forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week in attacks that amounted to war crimes, a U.S.-based rights group said on Wednesday. 　　Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said it was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the Aleppo region... More

　　Almost 18,000 Syrians have died in regime jails since 2011, with authorities using torture, beatings, electric shocks and rape against prisoners on a "massive scale," a rights groups has said. 　　The UK-based Amnesty International said an average of 300 detainees were dying every month in a report on Thursday that... More

　　More than 500 Syrian civilians have been killed in a single week, mostly in regime and Russian air raids and shelling, across several cities in the war-torn country. 　　Casualty figures released on Saturday by the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), a grassroots network of activists in Syria, recorded 508 civilians killed... More

　　Shia militias in Iraq detained, tortured and abused far more Sunni civilians during the American-backed capture of the town of Fallujah in June than US officials have publicly acknowledged. 　　More than 700 Sunni men and boys are still missing more than two months after ISIL stronghold fell. 　　The abuses occurred... More

　　With Syria's war entering its sixth year, hundreds of civilians are being killed weekly and at least 1.9 million continue to live under siege, lacking access to life-saving humanitarian aid. Few international aid agencies have been allowed to deliver relief supplies or to work within the country; those that have,... More

　　Although residents of besieged east Aleppo have been told to leave immediately, they have no safe way of doing so. 　　Syrian regime forces sent a text message to residents of east Aleppo on Sunday, demanding they leave the opposition-controlled area within 24 hours or risk their lives during a major... More