Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In an unexpected development Saturday night, Syrian rebels who had been ...

A German court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian man of crimes against humanity and jailed him for life over offences committed ...

The downfall of Syria's tyrant leader Bashar al-Assad has marked a dramatic end to over half a century of his family's brutal rule. Rebel groups, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, made significant ...

Missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of the since-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in ...

Secret intelligence files show that missing U.S. journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in ...

Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice ...

The boys' mother, Samira, shaking with grief ... she asked for former President Bashar al-Assad himself to experience what she had lived through. "I hope he will pay the price," she said.

A Syrian pro-Assad fighter was convicted of crimes against humanity and jailed for life by a German court on Tuesday. Since ...

"It's true my son is dead," said Jamila Jabr, the 60-year-old mother of Humam, an army conscript who was killed in combat in 2012. "But the important thing is that Bashar al-Assad is gone.

Bashar al-Assad took over in 2000 ... "We are drowning in sorrow; our hearts are burning. I am like every mother here, crushed by pain every day." The regime killed two of her other sons, she ...

The mother, Sukayna Jebawi ... The brothers were part of an unprecedented uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad that erupted in 2011. But this strategy of detaining family members ...