The Assad family's rule was among the most brutal in the region and its prison system, including feared sites such as ...

The Syrian case is not the first time that SOS has received children who were forcibly disappeared. In El Salvador, in the 1980s, the U.S.-backed military attacked villages suspected of supporting a ...

Assad's former regime in Syria. As the investigation by Shane Bauer for the New York Times Magazine notes, the regime "disappeared" an estimated 100,000 people over the course of its 13-year civil war ...

The secret police abducted many of them with their parents and brought them to interrogation sites. Then they were placed in ...

The Cour de Cassation upheld Assad’s head-of-state immunity, but added that since he is no longer in office, “new arrest warrants may have been or may be issued against him for acts that may ...

Six months ago, the once seemingly impossible became reality: Syria's long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad was overthrown after years of brutal civil war. More than five decades of authoritarian rule ...

Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organising the election process told state media Sunday.

What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling ...

Video shows ex-top officials including former mufti and intelligence chief facing charges of murder and torture under ...

France's highest court has overturned an arrest warrant issued in 2023 for the former Syrian president. However, it found that he can now be prosecuted, as he is no longer in office.

France's Court of Cassation Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as part of a probe into deadly 2013 chemical attacks during the country's civil war, ...

-- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is the center of attention in the aftermath of a United States airstrike against a Syrian air base where a chemical attack was initiated earlier this week.