Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus, describing it as ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new Islamist-led administration, according to a ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...