Ten New York prison guards have been charged in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including ...

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some ...

Asaad Shlash, Hassan Abd Alrahman, Faraj Birkdar and Haitham Alkatreb served long jail terms in the 1990s. Students and professors at Syrian universities with an interest in music, the four were also ...

For 54 years, Syria existed in the shadow of a silence so profound, it swallowed entire lives.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad overthrown by rebels Then-president Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Moscow after ... of inmates from the infamous Sednaya prison. The jail north of the capital ...

But deep divisions threaten a renewed cycle of death and chaos. By Shiraz Maher There was a depressing sense of inevitability to the deadly violence which gripped Syria’s coastal region earlier this ...

A former detainee in Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, al-Weis later served as a senior legal figure in HTS - appearing frequently in videos alongside other members of the militant group - and later ...

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa announced the formation of a new government late Saturday, reaffirming his commitment to "building a strong and stable state". Foreign Minister Asaad al ...

Syria's new Sunni Islamist-led authorities have been under pressure from the West and Arab countries to form a government that is more inclusive of the country's diverse ethnic and religious ...

A study of families who have lived through conflict in Syria suggests that genetic imprints of their trauma have been passed to their children and grandchildren. “This is a really great attempt ...

DAMASCUS - Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed ... vanished into a labyrinthine prison system. In many cases, families would ...

Early March 2025 was when Syria’s post-Assad transition turned sour. In scenes that resembled the worst moments of Syria’s civil war, hundreds of Alawite civilians were killed, probably by a ...