The US is denying reports that it bombed a mosque in northwestern Syria during evening prayers, killing at least 50—despite mounting evidence from survivors and witnesses.
Killings, forced recruitment and other grave violations against children in Syria were the highest on record in 2016, said UNICEF in a grim assessment as the war reaches six years.
Amid shifting alliances in the scramble for northern Syria, Kurdish-led forces are accused of handing over territory to the Assad regime, in a deal brokered by Russia.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals referred Turkey to the UN Security Council for detention of a judge on suspicion of involvement in last year's coup attempt.
In response to the mass execution of 15 prisoners in Jordan, human rights groups condemned the hangings as secretive and conducted "without transparency."
US warplanes and drones struck supposed al-Qaeda targets across three provinces in Yemen, killing at least 12 suspected militants and wounding multiple civilians.
Egypt's Court of Cassation acquitted ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak in a retrial on charges of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.
A US drone strike killed a supposed al-Qaeda leader in Syria fighting in an ex-Nusra Front cell that had just carried out a deadly suicide attack on a regime intelligence complex.
The People's Democratic Party of Turkey called on the European Court of Human Rights to investigate the unlawful imprisonment of the party's co-chairs.
Syrian regime forces carried out chemical attacks in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during the final month of the battle for the city, Human Rights Watch charges.
Idlib governorate, where evacuees from Aleppo were forced to flee, is dominated by jihadist factions that both threaten secularists and draw air-strikes from the US and Russia alike.
Dictator Bashar Assad told reporters he found Trump's stance on Syria to be "promising," and broached inviting in US troops to fight ISIS in a "rapprochement" with Russia.
