According to Halo Trust since early December, coinciding with the fall of Assad, at least 144 people have been killed, ...

Anadolu's footage supports Amnesty's claims about prison, helps to corroborate evidence they heard from former detainees and ...

Bashar al-Assad. His brother, a student, was also captured that same year, and ended up in Sednaya, a prison that was known as the “human slaughterhouse,” a place where Assad’s officers ...

resorting to bestial torture and wanton slaughter when all else failed. “You can walk around Damascus now without encountering checkpoints, without having to see pictures of Bashar al-Assad everywhere ...

Pictures of Bashar al-Assad ... rulers drummed into the Alawites that they would face slaughter at the hands of jihadists like IS and al-Qaeda if the regime fell. Around Latakia and Tartus ...

One inmate quoted an 800-year-old poet writing, "My country, even if it oppresses me, is dear. My people, even if uncharitable to me, are generous." ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...

Five years earlier, Shahin had shepherded his family out of their native Syria as the country was engulfed in violent conflict between rebel groups and brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad. They’d ...

As Bashar al-Assad's tightly controlled empire unravels, we're visiting the very heart of it, Qardaha, the Assads' family village. Thrown open, the heavy iron gates of the family home.

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

The IRGC proved its worth during the eight year war with Iraq. This began in 1980 when Iraq sought to grab some Iranian oil fields on the border while the Iranian civil war was still underway. The ...