IT was one of the most fearsome regimes in the Middle East, ruling Syria with an iron grip and “disappearing” hundreds of ...

During a lightning offensive to capture Syria, opposition fighters have freed thousands of people from a network of terrifying prisons that characterised the repressive al-Assad regime that they ...

Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and ...

A Syrian prison labelled the 'Human Slaughterhouse' is the focus of a new BBC doc which reveals the haunting truth of life in ...

Dissident Shadi Haroun visits the cells where detainees were kept and speaks to prison workers in pursuit of answers ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation ... earlier this week – Hafez al-Assad had his army and intelligence services slaughter thousands of his opponents, ending ...

During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most ...

Documents reveal how Syria’s fallen government hid hundreds of abducted children during the country’s civil war.

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