STORY: When she heard that rebels had toppled Syria’s brutal decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki went to search for her ...
Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...
The Sednaya prison, located near Damascus, is notorious for its brutal treatment of detainees — most of whom are political ...
Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad ...
In northern Syria’s Latakia region, opposition fighters set fire to the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, Syria’s longtime ...
The commander of Syria's rebels who overthrew the regime of President Bashar Assad, Ahmad Sharaa, said Wednesday that those ...
A ceasefire has been agreed between Turkish-backed fighters (SNA) and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the ...
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 ...
Family members and friends of thousands of missing Syrians are continuing their search for those disappeared by former ...
Hayat al-Turki has searched the notorious Sednaya prison for four days, finding list of over 7,000 prisoners, wonders if ...
Using only the light on their mobile phones, wailing men and women examined disfigured bodies lying in a darkened hospital ...
Horrifying images have started to emerge from the so-called 'White Building' - also known as the execution block of Sednaya ...