A second round of prisoner releases was expected in Aleppo city on Monday, three days after members of the Syrian Democratic ...

Khateeb, is a human rights activist, head of the documentation department at the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and a former detainee. She is from Hama province.

PARIS — With the signing of an agreement between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi on March 10, many Syrians breathed a sigh of relief. The ...

Syria bears a heavy legacy of institutional violence, embodied by the security branches and prisons spread across the country that for many years were the stage of the most horrific crimes against ...

Elation at the hope of returning home after Assad fell turned to shock for displaced Homs residents who found massive destruction and nonexistent services in areas they fled. Many turned back to ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.”  “Its green valley extends east as far as the eye can ...

SUWAYDA/PARIS — Local military groups took to main streets and central squares in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on Thursday night, raising the Druze flag and firing into the air. The armed ...

AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up the road from the river marking Lebanon’s northern border with Syria on ...

PARIS — Syria’s new government reached a landmark agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday to integrate “all civilian and military institutions” in the country’s northeast into the ...

Factions in Syria’s southern Suwayda province are split on whether to merge with Damascus. One side—aligned with Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri—is opposed, while the other—including the ...