Soccer`s embattled world governing body must make human rights one of its primary goals, on a par with promoting the sport and making money, according to a set of recommendations by a top UN official released on Thursday. FIFA should be prepared to use its negotiating leverage to ensure that countries bidding for its World Cup championship protect the rights of people who toil to build stadiums, John Ruggie, the […]

Beirut:  More than 180,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict broke out in March 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a new toll published on Thursday. The Britain-based monitoring group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it had documented the deaths of 180,215 people. Among them were 58,805 civilians, including 9,428 children and 6,036 women. The group said 49,699 […]

WARNING: This video contains graphic content that may be upsetting to some viewers.   A video distributed Thursday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows jihadists in the east of the country executing supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The Britain-based watchdog did not specify whether the men killed were combatants, nor did it say when the footage was shot. The men killed by Al-Nusra Front, a […]