"I feel like I'm in a dream and I don't want to wake up," says Amr Shayah who fled Syria following the civil war in 2011.

Joy sparked by Assad's overthrow accompanied by uncertainty about the future of the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional country ...

Assad, as a rebel-linked caretaker prime minister was appointed to oversee the transition of power. Follow for live updates.

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

Assad’s government by armed opposition groups has created a momentous opportunity for Syria to break with decades of ...

A sense of calm and order is returning to Damascus after Syrian rebel leaders lifted a city-wide curfew and urged people to return to work after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

There are indications that it was unarmed civil resistance led by the resurgent popular committees and local councils, which ...

Citing testimony from freed prisoners and prison officials, Amnesty International has reported that thousands of Syrians were ...

Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell.

Citing testimony from freed prisoners and prison officials, Amnesty International has reported that thousands of Syrians were ...

Sham, the leading rebel force, must work to allay public fears that it will seek to replace Assadism with its own form of absolute rule.

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...